Julia Golding

Julia Golding is a British novelist.

Biography

Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. She originally read English at the University of Cambridge. She then joined the Foreign Office and worked in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her many places including the Tatra Mountains and the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.

On leaving Poland, she exchanged diplomacy for academic studies and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at the Oxford University. She then worked for Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the United Nations and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones.

Golding is married with three children. She lives in Oxford and works as a freelance writer. "The Diamond of Drury Lane" is her first novel. More recently Golding has written "Secret of The Sirens", the first of a series of four novels called "The Companions Quartet".

Bibliography

* Cat Royal series:
** "The Diamond of Drury Lane" (2006)
** "Cat among the Pigeons" (2006)
** "Den of Thieves" (2007)
** "Cat O'Nine Tails" (2007)
** "Black Heart of Jamaica" (2008)
** "Cat's Cradle" (2009)
* Companions Quartet:
** "Secret of the Sirens" (2006)
** "The Gorgon's Gaze" (2006)
** "Mines of the Minotaur" (2007)
** "The Chimera's Curse" (2007)
* "The Ship Between the Worlds" (2007)
* "Ringmaster" (2007)
* "Dragonfly" (2008)

Awards and nominations

* 2006 The Diamond of Drury Lane won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award [ [http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/index.php4 Nestlé Children's Book Prize] ]
* 2006 The Diamond of Drury Lane won the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize [ [http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/navigate.do?pPageID=1185 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize] ]
* 2006 The Diamond of Drury Lane shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award [ [http://www.costabookawards.com/ Costa Book Awards] ]
* 2007 The Diamond of Drury Lane longlisted for the Manchester Book Award [ [http://www.manchesterbookaward.com/ Manchester Book Award] ]
* 2007 Secret of the Sirens longlisted for the Carnegie Medal [ [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.juliagolding.co.uk/ Official Julia Golding Website]
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* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/julia-golding/ Julia Golding at Fantastic Fiction]