Susan Price

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-21

Susan Price, born on 8 July 1955 in Dudley, in the West Midlands, is an English author of children's and young-adult novels who still lives in the Black Country. She has won both of the leading British prizes for children's books: the Carnegie Medal in 1987 for The Ghost Drum, an original fairy tale drawing on Russian history and folklore that opened her Ghost World books, continued in Ghost Song and Ghost Dance, and the 1998 Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Sterkarm Handshake, the first of her Sterkarm novels. Her other books include Ghostly Tales and The Bearwood Witch, and The Ghost Drum has been reissued by Faber as a modern classic.

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Books

• The Ghost Drum (1987) · Ghost World Core Canon
• Ghost Song (1992) · Ghost World Core Canon
• Ghost Dance (1994) · Ghost World Core Canon
• Ghost Spell (2017) · Ghost World Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 4 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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