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.

Contents 1 Writing 2 Bibliography 2.1 Novels - for older readers 2.2 Novels - for younger readers 2.3 Short story collections 2.4 As editor 3 References 4 External links

Writing

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. An original novel based on folklore, The Ghost Drum, won the Carnegie Medal for 1987.^[1]

In her award-winning novel The Sterkarm Handshake and its sequel A Sterkarm Kiss, time travel brings together a young woman from 21st century Britain and a young warrior from 16th century Scotland. She takes his side in a conflict between a 21st century corporation and his border clan, and they develop a relationship.

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

• city life (1974)
• Twopence a Tub (1975)
• Sticks and Stones (1976)
• Home from Home (1977)
• Christopher Uptake (1981)
• From Where I Stand (1984)
• The Ghost World Sequence: The Ghost Drum (1987); Ghost Song (1992); Ghost Dance (1993)
• Foiling the Dragon (1994)
• Elfgift (1996)
• 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)

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)
• The Fraid

As editor

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

References

• Channel 4 Biography
• Official homepage

External links

• Official homepage
• Susan Price at Fantastic Fiction
• Susan Price at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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