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
Life
Everyone’s life is a journey, but Michelle takes it more literally than most…
What made Michelle start writing? What other jobs has she done? Why can’t she whistle? You can find answers to these and many more things you never knew about Michelle in this, the most comprehensive collection of interview questions and answers about her ever assembled!
So – what made you start…more
Michelle is interviewed by Stephen Moss for The G2 section of The Guardian.
Michelle Paver is sparkier and less diffident than I recall. We originally met in 2004, when Wolf Brother, the first of her bestselling series of children’s novels about stone-age life, appeared. Outcast, number four of a planned six,…more
“Without Charity” was Michelle’s first published book. There is a special place in every author’s heart for their debut work… it is often intensely personal in flavour, and usually the result of years of hard toil. We asked Michelle how “Without Charity” came to be – and what it means…more
Authors often suffer from “Second Book Syndrome” – after a promising debut, the next book is both challenging to write and harshly judged against the first. In Michelle’s case, there were no such worries. “Glorious storytelling!” enthused Sarah Broadhurst in The Bookseller, picking A Place In The Hills as one…more
A chance meeting on a railway journey unleashed a chain of events that changed Michelle’s life… and set her firmly on the right track…
The man on the train didn’t look like a guardian angel.
He looked as if he had just blown in from a tropical photo-shoot. He wore a safari…more
