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Jamila Gavin was born in India andgrew up on the border between India and Pakistan. She first visitedEngland when she was five, and settled here for good when she was11.
Jamila went to loads of different schools but neverliked the discipline they imposed. She left as soon as she couldand went to the Guildhall School of Music, where she studied tobecome a concert pianist.
Though she never became a professional performer,Jamila continued to love music and she worked in the musicdepartment at the BBC before becoming a writer.
She wrote her first book when her children were bornbecause she realised that there were very few books that reflectedtheir experience of being multi-racial.
In later stories, and particularly in her SuryaTrilogy, she drew on her own childhood memories of growing up inIndia. In particular, the relationships between English and Indianfamilies at a time when India was becoming an independent country.
Jamila won the coveted Whitbread Prize for CoramBoy.
Jamila went to loads of different schools but neverliked the discipline they imposed. She left as soon as she couldand went to the Guildhall School of Music, where she studied tobecome a concert pianist.
Though she never became a professional performer,Jamila continued to love music and she worked in the musicdepartment at the BBC before becoming a writer.
She wrote her first book when her children were bornbecause she realised that there were very few books that reflectedtheir experience of being multi-racial.
In later stories, and particularly in her SuryaTrilogy, she drew on her own childhood memories of growing up inIndia. In particular, the relationships between English and Indianfamilies at a time when India was becoming an independent country.
Jamila won the coveted Whitbread Prize for CoramBoy.
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy
New and upcoming books
Series
Grandpa Chatterji
Grandpa Chatterji (1993)
Grandpa's Indian Summer (1995)
Grandpa Chatterji's Third Eye (2006)
Grandpa Chatterji (1993)
Grandpa's Indian Summer (1995)
Grandpa Chatterji's Third Eye (2006)
Novels
Kamla and Kate (1983)
The Hideaway (1987)
The Singing Bowls (1989)
Kamla and Kate Again (1991)
Double Dare (1992)
Deadly Friend (1994)
The Wormholers (1996)
Fine Feathered Friend (1996)
Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting (1998)
Forbidden Memories (1998)
Monkey in the Stars (1998)
Star Child On Clark Street (1998)
The Mango Tree (1998)
Ali and the Robots (1999)
Coram Boy (2000)
Digital Dan (2001)
The Turning Point (2001)
Fox (2001)
Danger by Moonlight (2002)
The Bow of Shiva (2002)
Coming Home (2002)
Totally Crushed (2002)
The Blood Stone (2003)
Out of India - the Teenage Years (2007)
The Robber Baron's Daughter (2008)
See No Evil (2009)
Never Forget You (2022)
The Hideaway (1987)
The Singing Bowls (1989)
Kamla and Kate Again (1991)
Double Dare (1992)
Deadly Friend (1994)
The Wormholers (1996)
Fine Feathered Friend (1996)
Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting (1998)
Forbidden Memories (1998)
Monkey in the Stars (1998)
Star Child On Clark Street (1998)
The Mango Tree (1998)
Ali and the Robots (1999)
Coram Boy (2000)
Digital Dan (2001)
The Turning Point (2001)
Fox (2001)
Danger by Moonlight (2002)
The Bow of Shiva (2002)
Coming Home (2002)
Totally Crushed (2002)
The Blood Stone (2003)
Out of India - the Teenage Years (2007)
The Robber Baron's Daughter (2008)
See No Evil (2009)
Never Forget You (2022)
Collections
The Magic Orange Tree (1978)
Hindu World (1986)
Three Indian Princesses (1987)
Stories from the Hindu World (1987)
I Want to Be an Angel (1990)
Bill's New Frock and Other Stories (1991)
Jazeera in the Sun (1997)
Our Favorite Stories (1997)
Three Indian Goddesses (2001)
From Out of the Shadows (2002)
Alien Adventures (2008) (with Franzeska G Ewart and Sam McBratney)
Free? (2009) (with others)
The Whistling Monster (2009)
School for Princes (2011)
Tales from India (2011)
Haunted (2011) (with others)
Blackberry Blue (2013)
Hindu World (1986)
Three Indian Princesses (1987)
Stories from the Hindu World (1987)
I Want to Be an Angel (1990)
Bill's New Frock and Other Stories (1991)
Jazeera in the Sun (1997)
Our Favorite Stories (1997)
Three Indian Goddesses (2001)
From Out of the Shadows (2002)
Alien Adventures (2008) (with Franzeska G Ewart and Sam McBratney)
Free? (2009) (with others)
The Whistling Monster (2009)
School for Princes (2011)
Tales from India (2011)
Haunted (2011) (with others)
Blackberry Blue (2013)
Picture Books show
Non fiction show
Jamila Gavin recommends
What Was Rescued (2017)
Jane Bailey
"A cat’s cradle of a read, where truth and lies, love and deception twist and interweave. It is about cause and effect; of how seeds, planted in childhood trauma, branch out unexpectedly in adulthood as Bailey’s characters try to differentiate between love and desire, jealousy and betrayal."
Anthologies containing stories by Jamila Gavin
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