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Siobhan Dowd

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About Siobhan Dowd

Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.

Siobhan's first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize.

Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children's Books Ireland Bisto Awards.

Siobhan's third novel, Bog Child, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008.

The award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Her novella, The Ransom of Dond, was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy.

Recent updates about Siobhan Dowd

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd from David Fickling Books (PB)

1 month ago

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book The Ransom of Dond by Siobhan Dowd from David Fickling Books

1 month ago

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book The Ransom of Dond by Siobhan Dowd from Penguin Random House Children's UK

1 month ago

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd from Definitions (Young Adult)

1 month ago

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd from Penguin Random House Children's UK

1 month ago

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book The Ransom of Dond by Siobhan Dowd from Corgi Childrens

1 month ago

January Events

With detectives taking over on the television, why not start them young with Bog Child a great mystery read! By Siobhan Dowd from David Fickling Books (PB)

2 months ago

January Events

With detectives taking over on the television, why not start them young with Bog Child a great mystery read! By Siobhan Dowd from Definitions (Young Adult)

2 months ago

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