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Kate Saunders

(b.1957)

Kate Saunders has written for the Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan, and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope. She lives in London with her son.

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 Mystery of the Wandering Scholar (2019)

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 (2000)
   Cat and the Stinkwater War (2003)
   Bachelor Boys (2004)
   The Little Secret (2006)
   Beswitched (2010)
   Magicalamity (2011)
   The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop (2012)
   Five Children on the Western Front (2012)
   Crooked Castle (2013)
   Mariana (2013)
   The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix (2013)
   The Land of Neverendings (2017)

Collections

The Best Bear in All the World (2016) (with Paul Bright, Brian Sibley and Jeanne Willis)

Anthologies edited

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

Non fiction

Catholics and Sex (1992)
How Dyslexics Learn (2002)

Awards

	Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (1986) : The Prodigal Father
	Costa Children's Book Award Best Novel winner (2014) : Five Children on the Western Front
	Carnegie Medal Best Book nominee (2016) : Five Children on the Western Front

Kate Saunders recommends

George and Rue (2004)
George Elliott Clarke
"Rough, uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking."

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

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

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