Author
Kate Thompson
Kate Thompson (born 1956) is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. While Kate Thompson's children's fiction is primarily fantasy, several of her books also deal with the consequences of gen…
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Kate Thompson (born 1956) is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. While Kate Thompson's children's fiction is primarily fantasy, several of her books also deal with the consequences of genetic engineering.
She has won the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award four times, for The Beguilers, The Alchemist's Apprentice, Annan Water and The New Policeman. The New Policeman was also awarded the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Dublin Airport Authority Children's Book of the Year Award for 2005. Creature of the Night was shortlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize, and has been shortlisted for the 2009 Carnegie Medal.
Books by this author
14 books in this view
The White Horse Trick 2009 The New Policeman #3 Creature of the Night 2008 The Last of the High Kings 2007 The New Policeman #2 The Fourth Horseman 2006 The New Policeman 2005 ★ 6.8/10 6 ratings The New Policeman #1 
Origins 2002 The Missing Link #3 
The Alchemist's Apprentice 2002 
The Beguilers 2001 
Only Human 2001 The Missing Link #2 
The Missing Link 2000 The Missing Link #1 
Wild Blood 1999 Switchers 
Down Among the Gods 1998 THE AUTHOR’S WORLDS
