Sarah Singleton is a British journalist and author of adult and young adult fiction. She received the
Booktrust Teenage Prize The Booktrust Teenage Prize was an annual award given to young adult literature published in the UK. The prize was administered by Book Trust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading. The Booktrust Teenage Prize was last awarded in ...
for her novel ''Century'' in 2005.
Biography
Singleton was born in
Thornbury Thornbury may refer to:
Places
;Australia
*Thornbury, Victoria
* Thornbury railway station, Melbourne
;Canada
* Thornbury, Ontario
;England
*Thornbury, Devon
* Thornbury, Herefordshire
*Thornbury, Gloucestershire
**Thornbury Castle
**Thornbury (UK ...
in 1966, and was educated at the
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...
in England. She has travelled in Europe, India and Nepal. She has two daughters, Fuchsia and Poppy.
She worked as a reporter for local weekly newspapers, including the ''Wiltshire Gazette & Herald'', before becoming a writer and freelance journalist in 2007. Her novella ''In The Mirror'' (Enigmatic Novellas #4) was reprinted by Cosmos Books in 2001. Her first adult novel, ''The Crow Maiden'', was published by Cosmos in 2000 and short-listed for the IAFA Crawford Award. Singleton's short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies, including ''Black Static'', ''QWF'' magazine, ''Enigmatic Tales'' and ''
Interzone''.
Bibliography
*''In the Mirror'' (1999)
*''The Crow Maiden'' (2000)
*''Century'' (2005)
*''Heretic'' (2006) (US title: ''Out of the Shadows'')
*''Sacrifice'' (2007)
*''The Amethyst Child'' (2008)
*''The Poison Garden'' (2009)
*''The Island'' (2010)
*''The Stranger'' (2011) (a sequel to ''The Island'')
*''Dark Storm'' (2012)
References
External links
Sarah Singleton's websiteSarah Singleton at Fantastic Fiction
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1966 births
Living people
English children's writers
English fantasy writers
English journalists