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THOMAS, FRANCES

Website: www.francesthomas.org

Frances Thomas was born in Aberdare, but later moved to London and studied at Queen Mary College, University of London. She recently moved to Llandrindod, Powys. She has written extensively for children, and her books are published by Bloomsbury, Seren, Andersen, Pont, Bodley Head, Macmillan, Hamish Hamilton and Heinemann. She won the Tir na n–Og prize in 1980 with her children’s novel The Blindfold Track. Her first adult novel Seeing Things, was a runner–up for the Whitbread First Novel award in 1986.

Selected Publications:
For Children
A Knot of Spells (Alun Books, 1983)
The Region of the Summer Stars (Alun Books, 1985)
Who Stole a Bloater? (Seren, 1998)
Finding Minerva (Pont, 2007)
Megan the Detective (Pont, 2008)

For Adults
Seeing Things (Gollancz, 1986)
The Fall of Man (Gollancz, 1989)
Christina Rossetti  (Biography) (Virago, 1994)

You can contact Frances through one of her publishers, Bloomsbury, on: 0207 494 2111