Maggie Prince

Maggie Prince was born and grew up in Lancaster. She was educated at London University, from where she obtained a Master’s Degree. She now lives in Hertfordshire and is married with two children.

As well as writing for children, Maggie has worked as a teacher, a freelance journalist and an information officer in London and Johannesburg. Her previous books include Memoirs of a Dangerous Alien which won the WHSmith Mind-Boggling Book Award in 1995, was shortlisted for both the Angus Award in Scotland and the Lancashire County Library Children’s Book of the Year Award and was chosen as one of the World Book Day Super Reads in 2001.

Raider’s Tide, published in February 2002, is Maggie Prince’s first novel with CollinsChildren’s Books. This historical story from the prize-winning author is a powerful romantic drama set in border country during Elizabethan times and has received fantastic reviews.

‘Page-turning excitement with a warm, strong story of a young woman’s first love at its heart The reader vividly shares the fears, frustrations and yearnings of this sixteenth-century border community, whose lives, though ordered by their traditions, shelter private secrets of crime and passion.’

Jonathan Douglas, Library Association

’This is a novel about growing up and coming to terms with the adult world, about duty versus desire and the vagaries of love. Written in a modern, accessible style, it has nevertheless plenty of period flavour, along with characters you care a great deal about. This book will surely become a firm favourite with Sherryl Jordan readers.’

Tara Stephenson, The Bookseller