Catherine Forde
Home address:
518 Anniesland Rd, Glasgow, G13 1YB, ScotlandTelephone:
0141 959 8490Email:
cathyforde@btinternet.comWebsite:
www.catherineforde.co.ukBRAW network:
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yesBiography:
For over a decade I have been writing novels with teenagers as the central characters. Most of my novels are contemporary and Glaswegian. In a previous life I taught English in secondary schools and colleges and edited dictionaries.
About writer's work:
I like to explore the relationship between teenagers and the adults in their lives, and my writing is colloquial and dialogue-driven. Although my novels are published as ‘Young Adult’ titles they are never written specifically for children. Recurring themes in my novels are the influence and impact of music on the individual, fitting in and fractured relationships, although I only realise I have ‘themes’ when someone else identifies them. I have won the Grampian Book Award and Scottish Arts Council award and been shortlisted for major prizes including the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Manchester Book Award and the Calderdale Teenage Book Award.About writer's events and projects:
I am available to do readings in school and libraries. Keen to foster creative writing in young people, I run many creative writing workshops where my focus is on finding inspiration in the familiar and the ordinary. Language:
EnglishAge groups:
Teens, AdultsBooks written
Meet Dec's family: there's his brother Gabe, a devoted Goth obsessed with dark music, studded dog collars and dying his hair purple, their pet snake Oz who lives on baby mice, and their mum, who ...
Jimmy Kelly is obese, and bullied mercilessly for it at school. He hides a secret he's sure would make them laugh still more
Jimmy Kelly is obese, and bullied mercilessly for it at school. He hides a secret he's sure would make them laugh still more
When Reece - strange, blue-haired, fire-obsessed Reece - moves in next door, Keith is worried. Not least because Annie, his three-year-old sister, really likes him. Funny Boy, she calls him. Reece is ...
Two strangers. Two VIP passes. One hell of a weekend. Sally Mack is fed up
16 year old John Blue likes music and girls, in that order. He dislikes 'The Two Cheeses', 'Danish Blue' and 'Dairy Lee'. 'The Two Cheeses', Dane and Lee like 'Star Wars' and making John's life a ...
Grampa Dan has just died. Danny notices the smell of his bedroom and the banging of his stick have gone, but gradually notices what else is missing. It was his forgotten Richard who uncovered Grampa ...
When Cloddy witnesses a horrific attack outside her dad's shop, neither the victim nor the attackers see her. Afraid for her life, she decides not to tell anyone. And why should she, when she's ...
You're the least popular girl in school, and the glossy friends who were briefly interested are bored. And you'll do anything to keep them. Nicky finds picking on the new girl is easy: everyone ...
Sometimes Roddy Fisher doesn't understand his mum. Not only is she refusing to let him watch telly, but she's also expecting him to read some musty old books from a jumble sale. But one of them is no ...
A supernatural mystery based on the Clydebank Blitz and written for 9 - 12 year old readers. Pete's whole family has suddenly and unexpectedly moved from London to Scotland and in their new house he ...
This is a gripping, powerful, and heart-warming story about one girl's choices. In 2012, The Emergency begins as terrorist bombs shatter cities around the UK and wreak havoc on normal life. Molly's ...
