Kate Thompson

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Kate Thompson, born Katharine Anna Thompson on 10 November 1956, is an English-born award-winning writer for children and adults, the daughter of the historians E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers, who has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. An accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, she drew on it for The New Policeman (2005), which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She has won the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award four times, for The Beguilers, The Alchemist's Apprentice, Annan Water and The New Policeman; her other books include the Switchers trilogy and Creature of the Night, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

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Books

• The New Policeman (2005) · The New Policeman Core Canon
• The Last of the High Kings (2007) · The New Policeman Core Canon
• The White Horse Trick (2009) · The New Policeman Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 2 (2 won)

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