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Piers Torday

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Piers Torday (born 1974) is a British children's writer. The son of the novelist Paul Torday, he was born in Northumberland and was a theatre and television producer for many years.[1][2]

His book The Dark Wild (2014) won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2014.[3] After Torday's father died, leaving an unfinished novel manuscript The Death of An Owl, Torday completed the novel.[1]

Torday's adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was performed at Wilton's Music Hall between 1 December 2017 and 6 January 2018.[4]

Works

  • The Last Wild, 2013
  • The Dark Wild, 2014
  • The Wild Beyond, 2015
  • There May Be a Castle, 2016

References

  1. ^ a b Piers Torday: finishing his father’s last novel, The Guardian, 7 May 2016.
  2. ^ Piers Torday website, accessed 6 March 2018
  3. ^ Emily Drabble, Piers Torday wins for 'wildly inventive' adventure, The Guardian, 14 November 2014.
  4. ^ "The Box of Delights". Wilton's. Retrieved 1 September 2017.