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Aidan Chambers


UK flag (b.1934)

A constant reader, Aidan Chambers was for eleven years during the 1950s and 60s a teacher of English and drama in secondary schools, seven of them as a modern-style monk. In 1968 he became a freelance author of fiction and a writer about and speaker on reading and literature.

In recent years he has lectured in Sweden, Holland, Italy, Canada and Belgium, where in March 2009 he delivered a keynote speech at a European Union Conference on Cultural Education, Innovation, Creativity and Youth, organised by the Flemish Ministry of Education. He has an honorary PhD from the University of Umeå, Sweden, and a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He lives with his wife, Nancy, in a village in Gloucestershire.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Horror
 
Series
Dance Sequence
   1. Breaktime (1978)
   2. Dance on My Grave (1983)
   3. Now I Know (1987)
   4. The Toll Bridge (1992)
   5. Postcards from No Man's Land (1999)
   6. This Is All (2005)
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Novels
   Cycle Smash (1967)
   Marle (1968)
   Fighters in the Sky (1976)
   Men At War (1977)
   Ghost Carnival (1977)
   Snake River (1977)
   Escapers (1978)
   Animal Fair (1979)
   Loving You Loving Me (1980)
   Seal Secret (1980)
   The Present Takers (1983)
   A Quiver of Ghosts (1987)
   This Place Is Haunted (1990)
   Driving Down to Galilee (2008)
   Dying to Know You (2012)
   Blindside (2015)
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Collections
   Funny Folk (1978)
   A Haunt of Ghosts (1987)
   The Kissing Game (2011)
   Dead Trouble (2020)
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Anthologies edited
   World Zero Minus (1971) (with Nancy Chambers)
   I Want to Get Out (1971)
   In Time to Come (1973)
   Ghosts That Haunt You (1980)
   Ghost After Ghost (1982)
   Out of Time (1984)
   Shades of Dark (1984)
   A Sporting Chance (1985)
   Love All (1988)
   On the Edge (1990)
   Favorite Ghost Stories (2002)
   More Ghost Stories (2004)
   Haunted Stories (2005)
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Series contributed to
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Anthologies containing stories by Aidan Chambers
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A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996)
Tales of Dread and Delight
edited by
Philippa Pearce

Awards
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (2000) : Postcards from No Man's Land
Michael L. Printz Award Best Book winner (2003) : Postcards from No Man's Land


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