Susan Price

This article is about the children's author. For the Vice-chancellor from 2010 of Leeds Metropolitan University, see Susan Price (academic).

Susan Price, born 1955 in Dudley in the West Midlands, is an award-winning English writer of novels for young adults. She also writes for younger children. She still lives in the Black Country.

Writing

Many of Susan Price's works are fantasy, from science-fiction to ghost stories; some are historical novels; others are about animals or everyday life. Many of her short stories are re-tellings of tales from folklore. An original novel based on folklore, The Ghost Drum, won the Carnegie Medal for 1987.

In her award-winning novel The Sterkarm Handshake and its sequel A Sterkarm Kiss, time travel brings together a young woman from 21st century Britain and a young warrior from 16th century Scotland. She takes his side in a conflict between a 21st century corporation and his border clan, and they develop a relationship.

The Pagan Mars Trilogy is set in a scientifically advanced alternative world where the pagan gods are still worshipped and slavery - called bondery - is commonplace.

Bibliography

Novels - for older readers

• city life (1974)
• Twopence a Tub (1975)
• Sticks and Stones (1976)
• Home from Home (1977)
• Christopher Uptake (1981)
• From Where I Stand (1984)
• The Ghost World Sequence: The Ghost Drum (1987); Ghost Song (1992); Ghost Dance (1993)
• Foiling the Dragon (1994)
• Elfgift (1996)
• Elfking (1996)
• Sterkarm: The Sterkarm Handshake (1998 - Winner of the 1999 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize); A Sterkarm Kiss (2003)
• The Ghost Wife (1999)
• Wolf Sisters (2001)
• The Bearwood Witch (2001)
• The Pagan Mars Trilogy: Odin's Voice (2005); Odin's Queen (2006); Odin's Son (2008)
• Feasting the Wolf (2007)

Novels - for younger readers

• The Devil's Piper (1973)
• In a Nutshell (1983)
• Odin's Monster (1986)
• Master Thomas Katt (1988)
• The Bone Dog (1989)
• Phantom from the Past (1989)
• A Feasting of Trolls (1990)
• Thunderpumps (1990)
• Knocking Jack (1992)
• Coming Down To Earth (1994)
• A True Spell and a Dangerous (1998)
• The Saga of Aslak (1997)
• Pedro (Piccadilly Pips) (1997)
• Wolf's Footprint (2003)
• Olly Spellmaker & the Sulky Smudge (2004)
• Olly Spellmaker and the Hairy Horror (2004)
• Olly Spellmaker: Elf Alert!(2005)

Short story collections

• The Carpenter and Other Stories (1981)
• Ghosts at Large (1984)
• Ghostly Tales (1987)
• Here Lies Price (1987)
• Forbidden Doors (1991)
• Head and Tales (1995)
• Hauntings (1995)
• Nightcomers (1997)
• The Story Collector (1998)
• Ghosts and Lies (1998)
• Telling Tales (1999)
• The Kings Head (2002)
• The Fraid

As editor

• Horror Stories (1988)
• The Treasury of Nursery Tales (1991)
• The Dark Side: Truly Terrifying Tales (2007)

References

• Channel 4 Biography
• Official homepage

External links

• Official homepage
• Susan Price at Fantastic Fiction
• Susan Price at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database