Ann-Marie Howell is an English children's author who writes historical mystery novels.
Biography
Howell lived in
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...
before studying at the
University of Manchester
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, where she completed a
BA in geography and an
MA in Town Planning. She joined West Suffolk Council, writing local government policy documents. She moved to
Bury St Edmunds
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in 2001 and took the
Curtis Brown
Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown Jr. (born March 11, 1956) is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel.
Background
Colonel Brown was born March 11, 1956. He graduated from East Bladen High School in Elizabethtown, North Carolin ...
Creative Writing for Children Course in 2015.
Writing
Howell initially wrote contemporary teen fiction, but it was not until she moved to historical fiction that her first novel, ''The Garden Of Lost Secrets'', was published by
Usborne in 2019. It was followed by ''The House of One Hundred Clocks'' (2020), ''The Mystery of the Night Watchers'' (2021),
''The Secret of the Treasure Keepers'' (2022) and ''Mysteries at Sea: Peril on the Atlantic'' (2023).
Published works
References
External links
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21st-century English women writers
English children's writers
Living people
People from Nottinghamshire
Year of birth missing (living people)
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