Douglas Bruton
Home address:
Glen Garth, Blyth Square, West Linton, EH46 7EGTelephone:
01968 660 568Email:
douglasrdbruton@hotmail.comBRAW network:
yesLL funded:
yesPublisher:
Floris BooksBiography:
Douglas Bruton is a teacher of English, but once he was just a father and he wrote stories for his three boys. ‘The Chess Piece Magician’, his first published children’s novel, was one of these stories. Now he is back to being a teacher again and his boys are all grown. Douglas continues to write stories, mostly because he can, but also because he has to. He has enjoyed a great deal of success in adult writing competitions recently and is hard at work on another novel for boys and girls.About writer's work:
I love books. The first that I remember reading is ‘Stig of the Dump’. I love that in books magic can happen and the reader believes it. In ‘The Chess Piece Magician’ I use this magic to create a world that has its feet in history but is more magical than real and I love that. I am currently working on a novel for children that this time has a girl as the principal character. There are lots of dead bees in the story and a blind man who is sick and a girl called Moira who can see into the future… a little way into the future, at least, and who must make things good in the world again. It is also about litter – I hate litter and this book is about cleaning things up a bit.About writer's events and projects:
I am able to do readings. I am also available to do workshops for children and or adults. I have successfully run a full day creative writing writers’ workshop for adults, and in May 2010 will run two workshops for children at Chamber Street Museum in Edinburgh. I run workshops in my school to help promote creative writing in junior secondary children and have this year been encouraged by the success of one of my students in The Pushkin Prize. I am a storyteller and a storywriter. I am a good motivator for children and have had very positive results from almost twenty plus years of experience of a being a teacher – I was Forth One’s Teacher of the Year in 2005, which has something to do with the impact I have on my pupils.
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
5-8, 9-12, Teens, AdultsBooks written
When Corrie's family returns to Uig Bay on the Isle of Lewis for yet another miserable summer holiday, he has no idea of the incredible adventure that lies ahead. He finds a strange figurine on a ...
