Children's author and literary consultant at www.curtisliterary.co.uk
New book deal with Usborne Children’s Books for ‘The Earth is Singing’, the true story of the Riga Ghetto in 1941 seen through the eyes of a young fictional heroine, Hanna Michelson, to be published on International Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2015.
Previous books:
Zelah Green (Egmont): Winner, Manchester Children’s Book Awards, shortlisted NASEN/TES awards, Waterstones awards, Young Minds Awards, Bolton Book awards and longlisted Branford Boase awards.
Zelah Green: One More Little Problem (Egmont)
The Taming of Lilah May (Frances Lincoln)
Lilah May’s Manic Days (Frances Lincoln)
The Haunting of Tabitha Grey (Egmont), shortlisted Portsmouth Brilliant Book Awards, Nottingham Brilliant Book Awards, Stockport Schools Book Awards, Yorkshire Coast Book awards.
Two previous biographies of Virginia Woolf.
Journalism and reviews have appeared in the Times, TLS, Spectator, Independent, Mail on Sunday, Jewish Chronicle, Herald and Scotland on Sunday.
I now run a literary consultancy specialising in children’s and YA fiction at www.curtisliterary.co.uk