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Jan Mark


UK flag (1943 - 2006)

Jan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty novels and plays and many anthologized short stories. She was divorced, and is survived by her daughter Isobel. Her son Alex took his own life 8 months after her death. She won the Carnegie Medal for "Thunder and Lightnings" (1976) and for "Handles" (1983).
 

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Children's Fiction
 
Novels
   Thunder and Lightnings (1976)
   Under the Autumn Garden (1977)
   The Ennead (1978)
   Divide and Rule (1979)
   The Short Voyage of the 'Albert Ross' (1980)
   Hairs in the Palm of the Hand (1981)
   Aquarius (1982)
   The Dead Letter Box (1982)
   Handles (1983)
   At the Sign of the 'Dog and Rocket' (1985)
   Trouble Halfway (1985)
   Frankie's Hat (1986)
   Zeno Was Here (1987)
   Dream House (1987)
   The Twig Thing (1988)
   Man in Motion (1989)
   Finders, Losers (1990)
   Time and the Hour (1990)
   The Hillingdon Fox (1991)
   The Snow Maze (1992)
   Great Frog and Mighty Moose (1992)
   The Mermaid of Banff (1992)
   All the Kings and Queens (1993)
   Silly Tails (1993)
   They Do Things Differently There (1994)
   Taking the Cat's Way Home (1994)
   Harriet's Turn (1994)
   A Fine Summer Knight (1995)
   Under the Red Elephant (1996)
   The Coconut Quins (1997)
   The Sighting (1997)
   God's Story (1997)
   My Frog and I (1997)
   Lady Long-legs (1999)
   The Eclipse of the Century (1999)
   Mr. Dickens Hits Town (1999)
   The Lady with Iron Bones (2000)
   Heathrow Nights (2000)
   Something in the Air (2003)
   Stratford Boys (2003)
   Eyes Wide Open (2003)
   Useful Idiots (2004)
   Riding Tycho (2005)
   The Electric Telepath (2005)
   Robin Hood All at Sea (2005)
   Turbulence (2005)
   Voyager (2006)
   Road Closed (2006)
   King John and the Abbot (2006)
   Formula One (2010)
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Collections
   Nothing to Be Afraid of (1980)
   Feet and Other Stories (1983)
   Two stories (1984)
   Enough Is Too Much Already and Other Stories (1988)
   A Can of Worms (1990)
   In Black and White (1991)
   Do You Read Me? (1994)
   Too Old to Rock and Roll (1994)
   Simply the Best (1996) (with others)
   Best of Friends (1997) (with others)
   A Jetblack Sunrise (poems) (2003)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
Shock Shop
   Long Lost (2002)
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Anthologies containing stories by Jan Mark
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The Dark Side (2007)
Truly Terrifying Tales
edited by
Susan Price
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A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996)
Tales of Dread and Delight
edited by
Philippa Pearce

More anthologies 


Awards
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (1977) : Thunder and Lightnings
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (1984) : Handles


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