Sally Nicholls

Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton-on-Tees, just after midnight, in a thunderstorm. Her father died when she was two, and she and her brother Ian were brought up her mother. She always wanted to write - when people asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, 'I used to say 'I'm going to be a writer' - very definite.'

After school she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Japan and then travelled around Australia and New Zealand, followed by a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick.

Her first book Ways to Live Forever was a multiple prize winner:
Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008
Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008
Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year
Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2009

She now lives in a little flat in London. She has a part-time job as an administrator for a charity called Effective Intervention. The rest of her time is spent writing stories and trying to believe her luck.

You can see some of Sally's Writer's Notes on Facebook - click here.

Photo by Eric Luke

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Featured Books, with extracts by Sally Nicholls

All Fall Down
Sally Nicholls
March 2012 Book of the Month.  This is an eagerly anticipated, powerful and inspiring historical novel about survival in the face of real-life horror from one of today's most exciting young writers.  Sally Nicholls provides a heartbreaking account of one...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable novel from the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics such...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award. Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008. Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008. Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year. Sympathetic, touching,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2009
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Sympathetic, touching, and surprisingly funny, Ways To Live Forever is a fantastic debut from Sally Nicholls. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Sympathetic, touching, and surprisingly funny, Ways To Live Forever is a fantastic debut from Sally Nicholls. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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