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Julia Golding

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My journey to becoming an author has been a roundabout one, taking in many other careers. I grew up on the edge of Epping Forest and was that dreamy kind of child who was always writing stories. After reading English at Cambridge, I decided to find out as much as I could about the wider world so joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. My work as a diplomat took me from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.

On leaving Poland, I exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford. I then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones - a cause about which I still feel very passionate.

Married with three children, I now live in Oxford between two rivers, surrounded by gargoyles, beautiful sandstone buildings and ancient trees.

My first novel, 'The Diamond of Drury Lane', won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2006 and the Nestle Children's Book Prize 2006 . I was also chosen by Waterstone's in 2007 as one of their 'Twenty-five authors for the future'. In the US, 'Secret of the Sirens' won the honor book medal of the Green Earth Book Award.

My latest series, which starts with Mel Foster and the Demon Butler, about an intrepid Victorian orphan who lives in a household of monsters, won Bronze in the Primary Teacher awards in 2015. The next part, Mel Foster and the Time Machine, has set the time-dial to arrive in 2016.

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Julia Golding

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Books from Julia Golding

Secret of the Sirens

The Diamond of Drury Lane

The Gorgon's Gaze

Mines of the Minotaur

The Chimera's Curse

Cat Among the Pigeons

Den of Thieves

Cat-O'nine Tails

The Glass Swallow

Mystery & Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries

Jane Austen Investigates: The Abbey Mystery

Den of Thieves

Black Heart of Jamaica: Cat in the Caribbean

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The Queen's Wardrobe: The Story of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Clothes

Hunt with Newton: What Are the Secrets of the Universe?

Rocky Road to Galileo: What is Our Place in the Solar System

Merlin and the Lost King of England: A Legend from Britain

Cave Discovery: When Did We Start Asking Questions?

Den of Thieves