Mollie Hunter
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Bill HamiltonBiography:
Author of 30 books, 28 of fiction for young readers, two non-fiction for adults. Internationally travelled as speaker and workshop organiser in schools, also as university lecturer. Translated into seven other languages. Winner of many literary prizes, including the Carnegie Medal (1975) and the Pheonix Award (1994). Photograph copyright John Paul Photography, Inverness.
About writer's events and projects:
Over many years she has acquired experience of talking in schools, lecturing in university and speaking at literary conferences all over the UK, the US, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand and Spain. Limited availability. Conditions would need to be discussed.
For adults and for children from Primary 6 upwards, talks on the craft of writing. For adults and senior pupils, writeris workshops. Storytelling for all ages from Primary 5 upwards.
Please make contact through agent Bill Hamilton of AM Heath & Company ltd.
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
9-12Books written
In 1854 the tenants of Greenyards, in the Scottish Highlands, are brutally evicted from their homes and the land sold for sheep grazing. To defend his family Connal Ross draws a pistol on the local ...
It was his smile, as if he was enjoying a secret joke; his strange gaze and the steely inhuman grip of his hand that frightened Robbie. He couldn't forget the vision of Elspeth, dead in a bridal ...
Will Douglas is the illegitimate son of Sir William Douglas, Keeper of Loch Leven Castle. One night, a prisoner is brought to the island. Mary, Queen of Scots is imprisoned in the castle and forced ...
This delightful and colourful story concerns a pedlar whose cheerful voice crying his wares was well-known in the villages and hamlets south of Edinburgh in the year 1540. His life seemed as peaceful ...
From its secret underground streets to the top of Arthur's Seat, the city of Edinburgh has been the inspiration for many children's books and writers. This unique guide will help children and adults ...
It's 1736, and Sandy, a young lawyer's apprentice, becomes involved in tracking down a dangerous band of smugglers, who are linked to a Jacobite coup. His several close escapes all add to this ...
Can Jamie, a young caddie (messenger-boy), help Macey, the English spy, to thwart a Spanish plan to invade England and Scotland? Their perilous adventures take them through the streets and ...
On a dark night in the 1590s Adam glimpses the Devil, near his home in East Lothian. Terrified, he is even more alarmed when he discovers that little Gilly, the timid kitchenmaid, is the thirteenth ...
