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Kate Thompson (author)
British-Irish writer (born 1956)
Not to be confused with Kate Thompson (romantic novelist).
Kate Thompson (born 10 November 1956)[1] is a British Irish writer best known for children's novels. Most of her children's fiction is fantasy but several of her books also deal with the consequences of genetic engineering.
Biography
Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there. She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue.[2] They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, which is reflected in The New Policeman.
She won two major annual awards for The New Policeman (Bodley Head, 2005), set in modern Kinvara and the Irish mythological Tír na nÓg: the Guardian Children's Fic
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Kate Thompson (romantic novelist)
Not to be confused with Kate Thompson (author).
Kate Thompson (Born 17 November 1959) is an actress and romantic novelist who also writes as Pixie Pirelli (the writer heroine of Sex, Lies and Fairytales).
Biography
She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and studied English and French at Trinity College Dublin.
She spent many years as an actress in theatre and television, most notably in the Irish drama serial Glenroe. She married the actor Malcolm Douglas in 1985 and has a daughter Clara (born 1987). In 1989 she won the Best Actress Award in the Dublin Theatre Festival. Her first novel, It Means Mischief, was published in 1998. The Blue Hour was shortlisted for the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year.
Her light-hearted novels feature characters involved in the arts and business, living between the South of France and Connemara, whose romances and lives have grown in the Celtic Tiger years and the successive austerity.
Works
- It Means Mischief (1998)
- More Mischief (2000)[1]
- Going Down (
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Kate Thompson
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https://www.katethompsonmedia.co.uk
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History, Nonfiction, Historical Fiction
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Kate Thompson was born in London and worked as a journalist for twenty years on women's magazines and national newspapers. She now lives in Sunbury with her husband, two sons and two rescue dogs. After ghost writing five memoirs, Kate moved into fiction.
Kate's first non-fiction social history documenting the forgotten histories of East End matriarchy, The Stepney Doorstep Society, was published in 2018 by Penguin. She is passionate about capturing lost voices and untold social histories.
Today Kate works as a journalist, author and library campaigner. Her most recent books, The Little Wartime Library (2022) and The Wartime Book Club (2023) by Hodder & Stoughton focus on two remarkable libraries in wartime. Her 100 libraries project, celebrKate Thompson was born in London and worked as a journalist for twenty years on women's magazines and national newspapers. Sh
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