The author won the first Branford Boase Award for outstanding first novel for her book "Song Quest".
Katherine Roberts was born in Torquay in 1962 and spent her childhood in Devon and Cornwall. She graduated with a First in Mathematics from Bath University. Since then she has worked with computers, racehorses, and in a pet shop. Now she lives near Ross-on-Wye, where she writes fantasy fiction, tutors for the Focus on Fiction distance learning course, helps judge an annual Creative Writing Awards scheme for local schools, and in her spare time exercises racehorses. She has her own website: www.herebedragons.co.uk/roberts and produces her own little newsletter, Fantasy Fever, for children.
About Song Quest: 'Superb.' Tara Stephenson, Bookseller '...keeps the adventure, twists, turns and thrills coming at a breathless pace.' Gary Dalkin British Science Fiction Association '...this magical and fantastical story from Roberts has lessons for real children about taking responsibility.' Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week 'For the child who keeps asking for the next Harry Potter.' The Times
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