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Set In Stone (novel)
''Set in Stone'' is a children's fantasy novel written by Linda Newbery. It received the Costa Children's Book of the Year Prize for 2006, and was nominated for the 2007 Carnegie Medal. Plot summary Samuel Godwin, an aspiring artist, is forced to drop out of art school following his father's death. Without any qualifications, he contemplates what to do for work. Wealthy businessman Ernest Farrow advertises for an art tutor for his two daughters, and Godwin successfully applies for the position. He moves into Farrow's mansion, Fourwinds, with adequate time to pursue his own art. Godwin becomes infatuated with Farrow's youngest daughter, Marianne, but questions remain unanswered. Marianne wanders the grounds at night, while her sister, Juliana, is always quiet and sad. Godwin discovers the previous art tutor, a talented sculptor, was sent away from Fourwinds before he finished his masterpiece. Major themes Although written as a children's book and nominated in awards categories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Newbery
Linda Iris Newbery (born 12 August 1952) is a British writer known best for young adult fiction—where she entered the market, although she has broadened her range to encompass all ages. She published her first novel ''Run with the Hare'' in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school. Her 2006 novel '' Catcall'' won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award. Newbery is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Scattered Authors' Society. Background Linda Newbery was born in Romford, Essex, spent most of her childhood in Epping, and attended a grammar school in nearby Loughton Loughton () is a suburban town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex. The town borders Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell, Chingford, and Buckhurst Hill, and lies north-east of Charing Cross. For statistical purposes .... As a child she kept her writing a secret, having been told by a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diamond Of Drury Lane
''The Diamond of Drury Lane'' is a children's historical novel by Julia Golding which won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award and the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize in 2006. The book is set on 1 January 1790. Plot An orphaned 13-year-old girl named Catherine "Cat" Royal lives in the Theatre Royal, after the owner, Mr. Sheridan, who named her after the theatre, found her as a baby. She knows well the Theatre and its surroundings, later 18th-century England. One night Cat overhears Mr. Sheridan and his colleague Marchmont discussing a valuable diamond hidden in the theatre. Cat is intrigued, but she promises to protect it for Mr. Sheridan after he tells her that nobody can know about it as it is difficult to know whom to trust with this secret. Cat befriends an African boy violinist, Pedro, who arrives to be the musician's apprentice. Cat also meets the aristocratic Avon family, the duke and duchess of Avon, and their children, Lord Francis and Lady Elizabeth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Children's Books
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British Children's Novels
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The Tenderness Of Wolves (novel)
''The Tenderness of Wolves'' is a 2006 novel by Stef Penney. It won the 2006 Costa Prize for 'Book of the Year'. General Information The book is set in Canada in the 1860s. It starts with the discovery of the murder of a trapper, and then follows various events that occur as the murderer is sought. As Stef Penney suffered from agoraphobia at the time of writing this novel, she did all the research in the libraries of London and never visited Canada. In an Elle Q&A interview, Penney revealed that the inspiration for the novel originated as a screenplay she had written 12 years prior to the novel, which also featured the novel's main character, Mrs. Ross. The book was serialised on BBC Radio Four BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of Talk radio, spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at B ... at 10:45 BST (repeated at 19:45) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stef Penney
Stef Penney (born 1965 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish filmmaker and novelist. She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme. She has also written and directed two short films; a BBC 10 x 10 starring Anna Friel and a Film Council Digital Short in 2002 starring Lucy Russell. She won the 2006 Costa Book Awards and The Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award with her debut novel '' The Tenderness of Wolves,'' which is set in Canada in the 1860s. The novel starts with the discovery of the murder of a trapper, and then follows various events that occur as the murderer is sought. As Stef Penney suffered from agoraphobia at the time of writing this novel, she did all the research in the libraries of London and never visited Canada. She has s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just In Case (novel)
''Just in Case'' is a young-adult novel by Meg Rosoff published by Penguin in 2006. Its adolescent protagonist David Case spends the majority of the book attempting to avoid fate. Rosoff won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. In a press release announcing the award, the librarians called it "a story about death, depression, sex, choice and survival." ''Just in Case'' also won the German Jugendliteraturpreis and made the shortlists for the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Random House (Wendy Lamb Books) published the first U.S. edition, also in 2006. Plot summary The book is set in Luton, Bedfordshire . Discussion with fans. Meg Rosoff. where fifteen-year-old David Case saves his younger brother from falling out of an open window. Scared by the expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel '' How I Live Now'' (Puffin, 2004), which won the Guardian Prize, the Printz Award, the Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, '' Just in Case'' (Penguin, 2006), won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK. Early life and education Rosoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1956, into a Jewish family. She was the second of four sisters. She attended Harvard University from 1974 to 1977, then moved to London and studied sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art. She returned to the United States to finish her degree in 1980, and later moved to New York City for 9 years, where she worked in publishing and advertising. Career In 1989, at the age of 32 Rosoff returned to London and has lived there ever since. Between 1989 and 2003, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Golding
Julia Golding (born 1969), pen names Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards, is a British novelist best known for her '' Cat Royal'' series and '' The Companions Quartet''. Biography Born in London, 1969, she grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. She originally read English at the University of Cambridge.Julia Golding – Info She then joined the and worked in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her many places including the Tatra Mountains and the bottom of a |
David Almond
David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written many novels for children's literature, children and young adult fiction, young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim. He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award. For the 70th anniversary of the British Carnegie Medal (literary award), Carnegie Medal in 2007, his debut novel ''Skellig'' (1998) was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. It ranked third in the public vote from that shortlist. Early life and education Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and raised in neighbouring Felling, Tyne and Wear, Felling. His father was an office manager in an engineering factory and his mother a shorthand typist. He was raised Catholic at St Joseph's Catholic Academy and had four sisters and one brother. As a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in United Kingdom, UK and Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then a brewery and owner of pub-restaurant chains, it was renamed when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship. The companion Costa Short Story Award was established in 2012. Costa Coffee was purchased by the Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The awards were discontinued in 2022. The awards were given both for high literary merit and for works that were enjoyable reading, and their aim was to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. As such, they were considered a more populist literary prize than the Booker Prize, which also limited winners to literature written in the English language and published in the UK and Ireland. Awards were separated into six categori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
