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Kate Thompson (author)
British-Irish writer (born 1956)
Not to be confused with Kate Thompson (romantic novelist).
Kate Thompson (born 10 November 1956)[1] is a British Irish writer best known for children's novels.
Most of her children's fiction is fantasy but several of her books also deal with the consequences of genetic engineering.
Biography
Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E.
P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there.
Kate thompson author biography in the back
She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue.[2] They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, which is reflected in The New Policeman.
She won two major annual awards for The New Policeman (Bodley Head, 2