Nigel Hinton

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Nigel Hinton (born 1941 in London) is an English novelist.

Personal life and family

Nigel Hinton was born in London in 1941, and attended Dulwich College.[1] He enjoys swimming, walking and films, and loves listening to music, especially blues, rock and roll from the 1950s, and the work of Bob Dylan. He has been married to Rolande Lager since 1980.

Career

Hinton worked in advertising for two years, then taught English for nine years. He then worked as a professional actor and did some part-time teaching before deciding to concentrate on writing. He has written at least nineteen novels from Collision Course (1976) to On the Edge (2014) including the Buddy trilogy for teenagers and the Beaver Towers stories for younger children. His novel The Finders won the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award, and Collision Course won the Dutch Silver Pen Award. Out of the Darkness won the Lancashire Book Award and the Stockport Book Award. His novel Time Bomb, set in 1949 in the area he grew up, won the 2006 Rotherham Book Award. He has adapted some of his novels for the screen, notably Buddy which was made into a BBC television series, and Buddy's Song which was made into a feature film. Both films starred Roger Daltrey as Buddy's dad. He has also written a number of original scripts for TV and the theatre.

Hinton's work is used widely in schools, and Buddy has been one of the best selling novels for teenagers in the last twenty five years. Teachers particularly appreciate his novels because they appeal to a wide range of pupil ability and are even enjoyed by teenage boys who don't usually like reading.[citation needed]

Hinton's great style is deceptively simple, disguising the craft which has gone into creating such complex and interesting characters and plots written in seemingly effortless, accessible and direct prose.

List of works

Teenage Fiction

  1. Collision Course (1976) (Text was modernized from 2004 e.g. the X films became 18 films. By 2009 the vinyl records became playlists, the payphones are now mobiles and the £1 notes are just notes. The chocolate machine outside the sweet shop and the conductor on the bus which are both essential to the plot remain intact).
  2. Getting Free (1978)
  3. Buddy (1982)
  4. Buddy's Song (1987)
  5. Buddy's Blues (1995)
  6. Out of the Darkness (1998)
  7. Ship of Ghosts (1999)
  8. Partners in Crime (2003)
  9. Time Bomb (2005)
  10. Until proven Guilty (2007)
  11. 2 Die 4 (2009)
  12. Walk the Wild Road (2009) (originally published as The Road from Home. Adopted the current title in 2011)
  13. On the Edge (2014)
Series contributed to
  1. Ghost Game (2011) part of the Heroes series

Children's Fiction

  1. Beaver Towers (1980)
  2. Beaver Towers the Witch's Revenge (1981)
  3. Beaver Towers the Dangerous Journey (1986)
  4. The Finders (1993)
  5. Beaver Towers the Dark Dream (1997)

Adult Fiction

The Heart of the Valley (1986)

Fiction for people learning English

Blood Ties (2000)

Television

  1. Buddy (1986)
  2. Cafe des Reves (BBC Education French Series)
  3. Clementine (BBC Education French Series)
  4. Isabel (BBC Education Spanish Series)
  5. The Reaper (ITV PLayhouse)

Film Script

Buddy's Song (1990)

References

  1. ↑ Author Vists, Dulwich College Library

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