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Name
  
Julia Golding


Role
  
Novelist

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Education
  
University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

Awards
  
Nestle Smarties Book Prize

Books
  
The Diamond of Drury Lane, Secret of the Sirens, Young Knights of the Roun, The Chimera's Curse, Cat among the Pigeons

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Julia Golding (born March 1969), pen names Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards, is a British novelist best known for her Cat Royal series and The Companions Quartet.

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Born in London, she grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. She originally read English at the University of Cambridge. She then joined the Foreign Office and worked in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her many places including the Tatra Mountains and the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.

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Upon leaving Poland, she turned her attention to academic studies and took a doctorate in English Romantic Period literature at Oxford University. She then worked for Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the United Nations and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones.

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Golding lives in Oxford and works as a freelance writer. She is married with three children. The Diamond of Drury Lane is her first novel, the first of the Cat Royal series. Also Julia Golding has written a series of four novels called The Companions Quartet.

In 2007 Waterstones selected her as one of 25 Authors of the Future.

Other Writing

Julia Golding is contributing to Mystery & Mayhem by Egmont Books, publishing in May 2016 along with 11 other authors including Katherine Woodfine, Clementine Beauvais, Elen Caldecott, Susie Day, Frances Hardinge, Caroline Lawrence, Helen Moss, Sally Nicholls, Kate Pankhurst, Robin Stevens and Harriet Whitehorn.

Awards and nominations

  • 2006 - The Diamond of Drury Lane won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
  • 2006 - The Diamond of Drury Lane won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in the 9–11 years old category
  • 2006 - The Diamond of Drury Lane was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards
  • 2008 - Secrets of the Sirens won the Green Earth Book Award (Honour book)
  • References

    Julia Golding Wikipedia