Julia Golding,
Mel Foster and the Demon Butler
Egmont Books, 2015
ISBN 9781405277341
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Julia Golding lives in Oxford. She has had various jobs including being a British diplomat and an Oxfam policy adviser. You can spot all sorts of material from her experiences popping up in unexpected places throughout her books.
She is a multi-award winning writer for children and young adults with over thirty books published in genres ranging from historical adventure to fantasy.
Over half a million of her books have been sold worldwide in many languages. One of her favourite parts of being an author is getting to meet her readers. So she’ll have a lot of fun at the Leeds Book Awards ceremony.
The story begins in the Arctic when Cabin Boy Mel finds something strange trapped in the ice: it’s Eve Frankenstein no less, daughter of the monster. The unscrupulous crew of the Albatross take the pair of them to London to sell to Queen Victoria, who has developed an obsession with monsters. There’s definitely something fishy going on in Buckingham Palace, and the Queen’s creepy butler has a peculiar influence over his queen. It’s up to Mel, Evie and an assorted bunch of monsters to save the Empire! Mel and co make a great gang, and their Victorian adventures are rip-roaring stuff.
Mel Foster and the Demon Butler was awarded a bronze prize in the UK Primary Teacher Awards 2015.
Julia gets her ideas for stories from all sorts of places - reading, things she sees by chance, research into the past, and her own experiences.
She is a Patron of Reading at a primary school in Oxford.
To find out more about Julia visit her website www.juliagolding.co.uk or follow her on Twitter: @jgoldingauthor.
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