Anne Booth

c Liz Seabrook

Anne Booth writes both for children and for adults and has a regular column in ’The Tablet’, the International Catholic News Weekly. She has written over twenty-five children's books as well as two works of commercial fiction, Small Miracles (Harvill Secker, 2022) and Sweet Mercies (Harvill Secker, 2023) 

She has a degree in English from the University of York, a Postgraduate Diploma in Pastoral Theology from Heathrow College, an MA in Children’s Literature from Roehampton Insititute (as was) and an MA in Creative Writing from Canterbury Christ Church University. At the moment she is studying for a part-time MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge College of Art at Anglia Ruskin.

When she was five she won a Windy Miller Alphabet Book as a prize for cheerfulness, and when she was six she won a Blue Peter Badge for a limerick and a letter signed by John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Peter Purves. Unfortunately she has lost these amazing objects, but she still lives in hope that there will be a small miracle and they will turn up again. She has done many jobs, including washing up in a restaurant, working as a tour guide in a haunted Almshouse, bookselling, teaching English in Italy, sessional lecturing at university, running music and art activities in a residential home, and being a long term carer for elderly parents. For some reason she is not scared of spiders, and is very useful if you need any removed.

She is currently working on a cosy crime novel, featuring the unforgettable Sisters of Saint Philomena.

*Charlotte  represents Anne for her adult novels. For enquiries about Anne’s writing for children, please contact Anne Clark Literary Agency.

Twitter: @Bridgeanne

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