Catherine Webb

Webb was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and the London School of Economics.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

She was 14 years old when she completed Mirror Dreams, which was written during her school holidays. Her father is author and publisher Nick Webb, and he suggested she should send the manuscript to an agent he knew, who eventually offered to represent her.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/03/04/bfamclub04.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616060415/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/03/04/bfamclub04.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 June 2008 |title=Telegraph Family book club: Exploits of a Teen Queen |work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London |access-date=17 December 2014}} The book was published in 2002 by Atom Books,[http://www.atombooks.co.uk Atom Books] and Webb was named Young Trailblazer of the Year by the magazine CosmoGirl UK. She has published eight young adult novels, all with Atom Books, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 2010.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kategriffin.net/about/ |title=Kate Griffin: Urban Magic |access-date=19 March 2009 |archive-date=16 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216005832/http://www.kategriffin.net/about/ |url-status=dead }}

A lifelong Londoner, Webb enjoys walking through the areas she describes in her books – Bethnal Green, Clerkenwell, and along the River Thames – comparing the city of London as it is now with how it was at various times in the past. She appeared in CosmoGirl in 2006/7 in an interview. She also appeared in online interviews with CBBC and nzgirl when she was 15,{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_2098000/2098054.stm |title=Teen author: 'I'm not the next JK' |date=5 July 2002 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=17 December 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/know/1248/|title=Know / Mirror Dreams by Catherine Webb|publisher=nzgirl.co.nz |access-date=17 December 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141217185758/http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/know/1248/ |archive-date=17 December 2014}} and also with The Daily Telegraph, which described her as a teen queen.

• Mirror Dreams (2002)
• Mirror Wakes (2003)
• Waywalkers (2003)
• Timekeepers (2004)
• The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle (2006)
• The Obsidian Dagger: Being the Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle (2006)
• The Doomsday Machine: Another Astounding Adventure of Horatio Lyle (2008)
• The Dream Thief: An Extraordinary Horatio Lyle Mystery (2010)

• A Madness of Angels (2009) (Matthew Swift series, book 1)
• The Midnight Mayor (2010) (Matthew Swift series, book 2)
• The Neon Court (2011) (Matthew Swift series, book 3)
• The Minority Council (2012) (Matthew Swift series, book 4)
• Stray Souls (2012) (Magicals Anonymous series, book 1)
• The Glass God (2013) (Magicals Anonymous series, book 2)
• (The Kitty Peck novels are by a different author also named [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7160408.Kate_Griffin Kate Griffin])

• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014){{Citation

| title = The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

| url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18295861-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august

| accessdate = 2014-05-11 }}

• Touch (2015){{Citation

| title = Touch

| isbn=978-0-316-33592-8

| oclc=881140651

| url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22314178-touch

| accessdate = 2015-02-05 | last1=North

| first1=Claire

| date=24 February 2015

| publisher=Orbit

}}

• The Gameshouse (2015){{Citation

| title= The Gameshouse Trilogy (The Serpent, The Thief, The Master)

| url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27802946-the-gameshouse

| accessdate = 2015-12-11 }}

• The Sudden Appearance of Hope (2016)
• The End of the Day (2017){{Citation

| title = The End of the Day

| isbn=978-0-316-31674-3

| url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31408829-the-end-of-the-day

| accessdate = 2017-04-04 | last1=North

| first1=Claire

| date=4 April 2017

| publisher=Orbit

}}

• 84K (2018){{Citation

| title=84K

| date=27 June 2017

| isbn=9780316316781

| url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/claire-north/84k/9780316316781/

| accessdate = 2018-03-25

| last1=North

| first1=Claire

| publisher=Orbit

}}

• The Pursuit of William Abbey (2019){{Citation

| title = The Pursuit of William Abbey

| date=11 May 2019

| isbn=9780356507439

| url=https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/claire-north/the-pursuit-of-william-abbey/9780356507439/

| accessdate = 2019-12-01

| last1=North

| first1=Claire

| publisher=Little, Brown Book

}}

• Notes from the Burning Age (2021)
• The Songs of Penelope trilogy
• Ithaca (2022)
• House of Odysseus (2023)
• The Last Song of Penelope (2024)

• 2005, Timekeepers nominated for the Carnegie Medal[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_car_nom_0405.html Carnegie Press Desk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928042229/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_car_nom_0405.html |date=28 September 2007 }} : 4 March 2005
• 2006, The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle nominated for the Carnegie Medal[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_car_nom_07.html Carnegie Press Desk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207152353/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_car_nom_07.html |date=7 February 2012 }} : 20 November 2006
• 2014, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (as Claire North) nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Novel
• 2015, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (as Claire North) nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
• 2015, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (as Claire North) won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award
• 2017, The Sudden Appearance of Hope (as Claire North) won the World Fantasy Award—Novel{{cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2017/11/05/announcing-the-2017-world-fantasy-award-winners/#more-311542 |title=Announcing the 2017 World Fantasy Award Winners |publisher=Tor.com|date=5 November 2017 }}

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• {{Official website|http://www.kategriffin.net/}}
• [https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/?s=catherine+webb Catherine Webb] at Little, Brown Book Group
• {{isfdb name|id=Catherine_Webb|name=Catherine Webb}}
• [https://archive.today/20130124203404/http://www.graemesfantasybookreview.com/2009/02/author-interview-kate-griffin_27.html Interview with "Kate Griffin"]
• [http://richiebrown.co.uk/an-interview-with-catherine-webb.html 'Young Adult' – an Interview with Catherine Webb] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007162603/http://richiebrown.co.uk/an-interview-with-catherine-webb.html |date=7 October 2015 }}
• [https://archive.today/20190115073251/http://upcoming4.me/item/11267-the-story-behind-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august-by-claire-north The story behind The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Online Essay by Claire North]

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