The award-winning, best-selling author

This website contains affiliate links. If you buy items using these links, I may receive a commission, at no extra cost to you.

Street Child by Berlie Doherty – featured on the home page

Berlie Doherty – About me – featured on the home page

Far From Home by Berlie Doherty – featured on the home page

Treason by Berlie Doherty – featured on the home page

Children of Winter by Berlie Doherty – featured on the home page

Books by Berlie Doherty – featured on the home page

Berlie Doherty is the author of the best-selling novel, Street Child, and over 60 more books for children, teenagers and adults, and has written many plays for radio, theatre and television. She has been translated into over twenty languages and has won many awards, including the Carnegie medal for both Granny Was a Buffer Girl and Dear Nobody, and the Writers’ Guild Award for both Daughter of the Sea and the theatre version of Dear Nobody. She has three children and seven grandchildren, and lives in the Derbyshire Peak District with Alan James Brown. Her new picture book The Seamaiden’s Odyssey, illustrated by Tamsin Rosewell, was published by UCLan on 12 September 2024.

My latest news

Cover of The Seamaiden’s Odyssey by Berlie Doherty and Tamsin Rosewell

The Seamaiden’s Odyssey now also available in paperback

24 February 2025

The Seamaiden’s Odyssey is a coming of age story inspired by the mermaid’s pool in the Derbyshire Peak District. Now also in paperback.

The Haunted Hills, Children of Winter and Granny Was a Buffer Girl: cover images

Event appearances March 2024

19 February 2024

In March 2024, I'm very pleased to be speaking at the 2024 Swadlincote Festival of Words and at Authors Assemble, Buxton. More details here.

See all my news items

My latest blog posts

The Carnegie Award winners 2025

19 August 2025

The 2025 Carnegie Award winners – reviews and thoughts from me, illustrator Tamsin Rosewell and a young Carnegie Shadower.

Victorian childhood. Three children being arrested for begging in London.

Victorian childhood – work, school, toys and books

29 October 2024

Was Victorian childhood always a miserable existence of constant toil, hardship and disease? Not for all. With guest contribution from Professor Anna Barton.

See all my blog posts

Most popular pages and posts in the last 30 days

Main photo: Richard Harland Photography