Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisher lives in Newport, Wales, with two cats. She has published three collections of poetry, all with Seren, and many novels for children, with the Bodley Head, Red Fox and Hodder Headline. She worked in teaching and archaeology before becoming a full-time writer; she is also an experienced broadcaster and adjudicator. She has recently taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan. Myth, legend and spiritual concerns play an important part in both her novels and poems. |
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Incarceron named Book of the Year! One novel stands out above all others — Catherine Fisher's Incarceron (Hodder, £5.99/£5.69). At first confusing, this thrilling novel about people trying to escape from a living, sentient prison in which they are constantly spied-upon is a modern version of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, though given a better plot, people we care about and a prose style honed by decades of writing poetry. Its imaginative scale and gob-smacking finale make it one of the best fantasy novels written for a long time. Long after it's finished your child will be asking questions about the nature of reality, trust and good Government — as well as enjoying the heroic quest that only children's fiction now bothers to give readers. News from Catherine
In October Corbenic was selected as the winner of the 2007 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, awarded annually by the Mythopoeic Society of the USA. For further details of the Society, see http://www.mythsoc.org Darkhenge is also shortlisted for the Abbeyfield School Book award, a shortlist drawn up by the great kids of Abbeyfield School, Chippenham, who gave me a warm welcome recently. Hi all, and thanks for the book tokens. The German version of Scarab, Das Orakel und das Zeichen des Skarabaus, has just been published by Oetinger. And Schnee Wanderer is a bind-up edition of the Snow-Walker trilogy. Editions of The Scarab have recently been published in Lithuanian, German and Russian. 
Finally a small book called The Pickpocket's Ghost is now out from specialist publisher Barrington Stoke. Have a good summer Catherine |
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Travel the mountain gorge to get to the novels, take the ship for the poems or follow the pathway to the reviews.
Or go through the prison keys to read an extract from Incarceron, or through the castle doors to read an extract from Corbenic
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Seren Seren's catalogue is available here. Hodder More information about the novels in the Hodder Silver series here Random House Information on the Red Fox/Bodley Head novels Gomer Press Gomer's imprint Pont publishes The Hare, a book of short stories, and The Weather Dress, an illusrated book for younger readers Maggie Davies Web site of Maggie Davies, Catherine's sister, who illustrated The Weather Dress Random House interview Interview with Catherine on the Random House site Kids' Bookline Another interview with Catherine Interview with Catherine in The Western Mail Noteworthy because The Western Mail doesn't usually notice that there are any Welsh writers Yet another interview... ... this time from the Welsh Books Council site The Welsh Academi Information on Welsh writing in general Peter Finch's Welsh Literary Links With lots of links of children's and adults' writers in Wales The directory of the on-line world of UK children's books Achuka Children's book site Kluitman Kinder -en Jeugdboeken A Dutch site with a biog of Catherine (click on "Schrijvers Info"). This site is a frame-trapper so it's best to right-click the link and then "open in new window" Mrs Mad's Bookarama Site with reviews of Corbenic and other books Reading Matters Another children's book site with reviews of some of Catherine's books Write Away Several reviews of Catherine's books here. Southern Writers' Conference An annual, residential weekend for everyone who is serious about writing. Best selling speakers, lively discussion groups, beautiful grounds and peacocks. Poetry Archive What it says. A good place to find older texts you might be looking for Wales on the Web General Welsh links Any technical questions or comments about this site to the Webmistress, please. You can contact Catherine via the Guestbook, which is at the end of your journey. Her agent can be contacted at this address Thanks to Free Gifs & Animations for some mediaeval graphics, and to Ancient Nile for some Egyptian ones. And here is a new web ring the site is a member of:
The site is also a member of the Welsh Literature web ring: | |||||||||||||||
