Chris Wooding
Chris Wooding grew up in a small town in the Midlands, where nothing very interesting happened. So he started to write. His first book contract was signed at age nineteen. By the time he left university he was working as a full time author and has been writing professionally ever since. He is now the author of a number of books for adults and young people and has been translated into over twenty languages.
Chris has also been the recipient of numerous awards including the Nestlé Smarties Silver Award for The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray and the Lancashire Children's Book Award for Poison, as well as having been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Retribution Falls (of the Tales of Ketty Jay series) and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal for Storm Thief.
Books
Malice
Author: Chris Wooding
Publisher: Scholastic
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 10+
If someone told you there was a comic book that was a view into another, darker world, would you believe them?
Pale
Author: Chris Wooding
Publisher: Barrington Stoke
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 8+
In an eerie futuristic world, society has figured out a way to bring people back from the dead...
Retribution Falls: Tales of the Ketty Jay
Author: Chris Wooding
Publisher: Indigo
Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 10+
Darien Frey is the captain of The Ketty Jay - a pirate spaceship whose disparate and dysfunctional crew make a living on the wrong side of the law.
The Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay
Author: Chris Wooding
Publisher: Indigo
Interest age: 12-13
Reading age: 10+
In the second gripping installment of the adventures of the Ketty Jay, Captain Darien Frey finds himself seeking an alien treasure on a dangerous island.