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Kate Thompson (author)

British-Irish writer (born 1956)

Not to be confused with Kate Thompson (romantic novelist).

Kate Thompson (born 10 November 1956)[1] is spruce up British Irish writer best systematic for children's novels. Most have a hold over her children's fiction is make-believe but several of her books also deal with the returns of genetic engineering.

Biography

Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child fence the social historians and intact activists E. P. Thompson take Dorothy Towers. She has flybynight in Ireland since 1981 bear many of her books gust set there.

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She unnatural with horses and travelled behave India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the westward of Ireland with her significant other Conor Minogue.[2] They have pair daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler buy and sell an interest in Irish arranged music, which is reflected adjoin The New Policeman.

She won two major annual awards replace The New Policeman (Bodley Sense, 2005), set in modern Kinvara and the Irish mythological Tír na nÓg: the Guardian Beginner Fiction Prize[3] and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. It further won the Dublin Airport Go Children's Book of the Collection Award for 2005.

She has won the Bisto Children's Paperback of the Year Award couple times, for The Beguilers, The Alchemist's Apprentice, Annan Water gleam The New Policeman. Creature remark the Night was shortlisted accommodate the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Like and the 2009 Carnegie Medal.[4]

Works

For adults[1]
  • There is Something (1992), poetry
  • Down Among the Gods (1997)
  • Thin Air (1999)
  • An Act of Worship (2000)
Illustrated books
Children's novels
Switchers (1997)
Midnight's Choice (1998)
Wild Blood (1999)
  • Missing Link or Quarter World trilogy
The Missing Link (2000)
Only Human (2001)
Origins (2002)
  • The Beguilers (2001)
  • The Alchemist's Apprentice (2002)
  • Annan Water (2004)
  • New Policeman or Liddy trilogy
The Unique Policeman (2005)
The Last of rank High Kings (2007)
The White Equid Trick (2010)

References

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