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Kate Saunders

(1957 - 2023)

Kate Saunders wrote many books for adults and children. Her books for children won awards and received rave reviews, and include future classics such as Beswitched, Magicalamity, The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop, The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix, Carnegie-shortlisted The Land of Neverendings and Costa Winner Five Children on the Western Front.

Awards: Costa (2014) see all

Genres: Children's Fiction, Historical Mystery

Series

Belfry Witches
   1. A Spell of Witches (1999)
   2. Mendax the Mystery Cat (1999)
   3. Red Stocking Rescue (1999)
   4. Power Hat Panic (2000)
   5. Witch You Were Here (2000)
   6. Broomsticks in Space (2000)

Laetitia Rodd Mystery
   1. The Secrets of Wishtide (2016)
   2. The Case Of The Wandering Scholar (2019)
   3. The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden (2021)

Planet Yule 1
1. The Great Reindeer Disaster (2019)
2. Trouble on Planet Christmas (2020)

Novels

   The Prodigal Father (1986)
   Storm in the Citadel (1989)
   Night Shall Overtake Us (1993)
   Wild Young Bohemians (1995)
   Lily-Josephine (1998)
   The Marrying Game (1999)
   Cat and the Stinkwater War (2003)
   Bachelor Boys (2004)
   The Little Secret (2006)
   Beswitched (2010)
   Magicalamity (2011)
   The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop (2012)
   Crooked Castle (2013)
   Mariana (2013)
   The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix (2013)
   Five Children on the Western Front (2014)
   The Land of Neverendings (2017)
   A Drop of Golden Sun (2024)

Collections

The Best Bear in All the World (2016) (with others)

Anthologies edited

   Revenge (1990)
   Eighteen Layers of Hell (1996)
   The Virago Book of Men (2001)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Kate Saunders

The Seven Deadly Sins (1990)
edited by
Rachel Billington

Awards

2014 Costa Book Award for Children's Book : Five Children on the Western Front

Award nominations

	2016 Carnegie Medal (nominee) : Five Children on the Western Front
	1986 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : The Prodigal Father

Kate Saunders recommends

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton (2011)
(Laurence Bartram, book 2)
Elizabeth Speller
"Speller's writing is gorgeous."

The House at Midnight (2008)
Lucie Whitehouse
"A fine piece of high gothic, as dark and delicious as bitter chocolate, and also a moving lament for the loss of youth. Whitehouse is an English middle-class Donna Tartt, skillfully building layers of menace. I was spellbound."

The Lost Dog (2007)
Michelle de Kretser
"A beautiful piece of writing - place your bets now for the Booker."

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