Echoes

Informationen zum Autor Laura Dockrill is an award-winning children’s author, illustrator, script-writer and performance poet who has been shortlisted for the Waterstones’ Book of the Year prize and twice been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. As a poet she is a poet-in-residence for Radio 1. As a script-writer she co-wrote Goldfish which was nominated for the BAFTA for Best British Short in 2020. As a playwright her work has been seen at the Bush Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall and the Young Vic, and she has published an adult memoir called What Have I Done? which detailed her struggles with post-partum psychosis and for which she is now writing a TV series script. She is on the advisory panel at The Ministry Of Stories, was the writer in residence for Booktrust and has judged many literary prizes. She is also the founder of ‘This Is Not a Female Tribe’, a networking session for women in the arts. She grew up in Brixton, attended the Brit School and still lives in London with her husband and son. Klappentext A collection of terrifyingly wicked fairytales and poems from The Times' Talent to Watch, Laura Dockrill Immerse yourself in the magical world of Laura Dockrill; a land where all is not as it seems. Between the covers of this book lie worlds you'll never want to leave, stories familiar and yet strange, and characters old, made new... Dip inside to discover today's Princess and the Pea, the modern Hansel and Gretel, twenty-first century ghouls, monsters and more. Darkly humorous and bone-shatteringly terrifying ? this collection of tales will reel you in and won't let you escape its spell... Zusammenfassung A collection of terrifyingly wicked fairytales and poems from The Times' Talent to Watch! Laura Dockrill

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Laura Dockrill
• Verlag: Harper Collins Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.08.2010
• EAN: 9780007301294
• ISBN: 978-0-00-730129-4
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Fiction: special features, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Humorous fiction, Poetry by individual poets, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary