Susan Price

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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 story collections 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 sixteenth-century border clan. 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.

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Books 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)
  • The Sterkarm Handshake (1998 - Winner of the 1999 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize)
  • The Ghost Wife (1999)
  • Wolf Sisters (2001)
  • The Bearwood Witch (2001)
  • A Sterkarm Kiss (2003)
  • The Pagan Mars Trilogy: Odin's Voice (2005); Odin's Queen (2006); Odin's Son (due to be published in 2007)

Books 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)

Short 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)

As editor

  • Horror Stories (1988)
  • The Treasury of Nursery Tales (1991)

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