Piers Torday (born 1974) is a British children's writer. The son of the novelist

Paul Torday Paul Torday (; 1 August 1946 – 18 December 2013) was a British writer and the author of the comic novel ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen''. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was seria ...

, he was born in

Northumberland Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey. It is bordered by land ...

and was a theatre and television producer for many years.Piers Torday: finishing his father’s last novel
''The Guardian'', 7 May 2016.Piers Torday website
accessed 6 March 2018 His book ''The Dark Wild'' (2014) won the

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award was a literary award that annual recognised one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. It was conferred upon the author ...

for 2014. After Torday's father died, leaving an unfinished novel manuscript ''The Death of An Owl'', Torday completed the novel. Torday's adaptation of

John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ''The Midnight Folk'' and ...

's ''

The Box of Delights ''The Box of Delights'' is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield. It is a sequel to ''The Midnight Folk'', and was first published in 1935. Also known as "When The Wolves Were Running" Plot Kay Harker is returning from boarding school ...

'' was performed at

Wilton's Music Hall Wilton's Music Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Shadwell, built as a music hall and now run as a multi-arts performance space in Graces Alley, off Cable Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is one of very few surviving music ...

between 1 December 2017 and 6 January 2018 and revived at the same venue between 30 November 2018 and 5 January 2019

Works

* ''The Lost Magician'', 2019 * The Frozen Sea, 2019 * ''The Last Wild'', 2013 * ''The Dark Wild'', 2014 * ''The Wild Beyond'', 2015 * ''There May Be a Castle'', 2016

References

1974 births Living people British children's writers Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners {{UK-writer-stub