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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 most recent books are Far From Home and Joe and the Dragonosaurus. Her latest novel The Haunted Hills will be published in 2022.

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Judging the Sheffield Novel Slam 2021

12 October 2021

On Monday 18th October I’m one of the five judges for the annual Sheffield Novel Slam, part of the Off The Shelf literature festival.

‘Authors Uncovered: Britain’s Favourite Children’s Authors’ by Jack Heywood, 10

11 October 2021

I am honoured to appear in 10-year old Jack Heywood’s book, ‘Authors Uncovered: Britain’s Favourite Children’s Authors’, among some very distinguished authors indeed!

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