Susan Price

Susan Price, born 1955 in Dudley in the West Midlands, is an award-winning English writer of novels for young adults. She also writes for younger children. She still lives in the Black Country.

Many of Susan Price's works are fantasy, from science-fiction to ghost stories; some are historical novels; others are about animals or everyday life. Many of her short stories are re-tellings of tales from folklore.

In her most celebrated novel "The Sterkarm Handshake" and its sequel "A Sterkarm Kiss" time travel leads to conflict between a 21st century corporation and a 16th century border clan. A third Sterkarm novel is in progress. The Pagan Mars Trilogy is set in a scientifically-advanced alternative world where the pagan gods are still worshipped and slavery - called bondery - is commonplace.

Bibliography

Novels - for older readers

*"Twopence a Tub" (1975)
*"Sticks and Stones" (1976)
*"Home from Home" (1977)
*"Christopher Uptake" (1981)
*"From Where I Stand" (1984)
*"The Ghost World Sequence": "Ghost Drum" (1987 - Winner of the 1987 Carnegie Medal); "Ghost Song" (1992); "Ghost Dance" (1993)
*"Foiling the Dragon" (1994)
*"Elfgift" (1995)
*"Elfking" (1996)
*"Sterkarm": "The Sterkarm Handshake" (1998 - Winner of the 1999 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize); "A Sterkarm Kiss" (2003)
*"The Ghost Wife" (1999)
*"Wolf Sisters" (2001)
*"The Bearwood Witch" (2001)
*"The Pagan Mars Trilogy": "Odin's Voice" (2005); "Odin's Queen" (2006); "Odin's Son" (2008)
*"Feasting the Wolf" (2007)

Novels - for younger readers

*"The Devil's Piper" (1973)
*"In a Nutshell" (1983)
*"Odin's Monster" (1986)
*"Master Thomas Katt" (1988)
*"The Bone Dog" (1989)
*"Phantom from the Past" (1989)
*"A Feasting of Trolls" (1990)
*"Thunderpumps" (1990)
*"Knocking Jack" (1992)
*"Coming Down To Earth" (1994)
*"A True Spell and a Dangerous" (1998)
*"The Saga of Aslak" (1997)
*"Pedro (Piccadilly Pips)" (1997)
*"Wolf's Footprint" (2003)
*"Olly Spellmaker & the Sulky Smudge" (2004)
*"Olly Spellmaker and the Hairy Horror" (2004)
*"Olly Spellmaker: Elf Alert!"(2005)

hort story collections

*"The Carpenter and Other Stories" (1981)
*"Ghosts at Large" (1984)
*"Ghostly Tales" (1987)
*"Here Lies Price" (1987)
*"Forbidden Doors" (1991)
*"Head and Tales" (1995)
*"Hauntings" (1995)
*"Nightcomers" (1997)
*"The Story Collector" (1998)
*"Ghosts and Lies" (1998)
*"Telling Tales" (1999)
*"The Kings Head" (2002)
*"The Fraid"

As editor

*"Horror Stories" (1988)
*"The Treasury of Nursery Tales" (1991)
*"The Dark Side: Truly Terrifying Tales" (2007)

References

* [http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/B/bookbox/authors/price/index1.htm Channel 4 Biography]
* [http://www.susanprice.org.uk/ Official homepage]

External links

* [http://www.susanprice.org.uk/ Official homepage]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/susan-price/ Susan Price at Fantastic Fiction]
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