Massive Acclaim For DARK MATTER!
Michelle’s hotly-anticipated ghost story, DARK MATTER, has been published in the UK to massive critical acclaim.
“Dark Matter is brilliant” enthuses bestselling novelist Jeffery Deaver. “Imagine Jack London meets Stephen King. The novel virtually defines a new genre: literary creepy. I loved it.”
“Compelling… direct… relentless” writes Helen Rumbelow in The Times. …more
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Michelle Wins the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
Michelle Paver today won Britain’s most prestigious writing prize for children’s fiction, The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. The award has been given annually since 1967, and is decided by a panel of authors and the reviews editor for The Guardian’s children’s books section. It is similar in…more
Creating A Stone Age World
Torak’s world is the world of six thousand years ago: after the Ice Age, and before farming reached his part of north-west Europe. The land is one vast Forest, peopled by small clans of hunter-gatherers. They have no writing, no metals, and no wheel. They don’t need them. They’re superb…more
From Africa to Wimbledon & Beyond…
Michelle was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi), where her South African father ran the tiny Nyasaland Times, and her Belgian mother wrote a weekly gossip column. But the days of genteel colonial society were numbered, and in 1963 the family moved to England, where she was educated in Wimbledon and…more
