Daren King

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Occupation Writer Name Daren King Nationality British Role Novelist		Period 1999–present Education Bath Spa University Literary movement New Puritans

Genre Literary novels; Children's mystery and supernatural fiction; Awards Nestle Smarties Book Prize Books Mouse Noses on Toast, Jim Giraffe, Boxy an Star, Tom Boler, Smally the Mouse
Nominations Guardian First Book Award

Laurence Daren King (born 1972 in Harlow, Essex) is an English novelist and children's writer. His debut novel, Boxy an Star, made the shortlist for the Guardian First Book Award and the ten finalists for the Booker Prize in 1999. He won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize gold medal in the 6 to 8-year-old readers category for Mouse Notes on Toast in 2006. King has lived most of his life in London.

King left school with only one GCSE in English and worked in computing. He went on to take an A level in English, and then studied for a BA in English Literature.

Adult fiction

Boxy an Star, Abacus, ISBN 0-349-11192-8

Jim Giraffe, Vintage, ISBN 978-0-09-944516-6

Tom Boler, Vintage, ISBN 978-0-09-944515-9

Manual, Faber & Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-23066-2

Children's fiction

Mouse Noses on Toast, illustrated by David Roberts (Faber, 2006)

Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots, illus. Roberts (Faber, 2007)

Peter the Penguin Pioneer, illus. Roberts (Quercus, 2009)

Frightfully Friendly Ghosties, illus. Roberts (Quercus, 2010 to 2012) – series of four novellas

Adult cartoon

Smally the Mouse: Smally's Party, Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-0-7475-7903-8

Other

All Hail the New Puritans, anthology of stories edited by Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne (Fourth Estate, 2000), ISBN 978-1-84115-349-0

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