Carmen Reid - Children's Author

Carmen Reid was born and brought up in a chilly and windy corner of Scotland in the depths of the countryside. This may explain her lifelong phobia of cows and abiding interest in cities, department stores, books, the cinema and newspapers.
She has written five novels, has a sixth in the pipeline and pens loads of columns, articles and short stories as well. (She likes to keep busy). Carmen did once study English Literature at University College London, but, ignoring everything she’d learned, she spent most of her 20s working as a local, regional and then national newspaper reporter. Knowing deep down that she was supposed to be an author not a journo, she left her day job to have a baby and write her first novel. (Hey, and just four sleepless, penniless years later it was published!)

Although there is a corner of her heart that will always belong to London (property developers welcome) she now lives in Glasgow, Scotland, with her husband, Thomas, and two children, Sam and Claudie, plus Jimmy the (lunatic) Jack Russell and Clive, Orangey and Gorcha, the fish.


Fortunately her hobbies are cooking, cleaning, arguing about whose turn it is to walk the dog, clean the fish tank, take out the rubbish, do the laundry... and so on.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Carmen Reid

Secrets at St Jude's 4: Rebel Girl
Carmen Reid
The four feisty friends from St Jude’s are back for a new term of dramas. These girls have glamorous homes and loads of money but it doesn’t protect them from the ups and downs of new relationships, the ubiquitous desire...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Secrets at St Jude's Drama Girl
Carmen Reid
A warm-hearted and hugely entertaining celebration of the value – and complications! – of friendship, this captures the special intensity that surrounds life in general and teen friendships in particular in a boarding school setting. Gina is excited to be...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Secrets at St Judes': New Girl
Carmen Reid
A raucous, hilarious and heart-warming tale of modern boarding school life from one of the UK’s bestselling authors of women’s fiction. Packed full of friendship, fun, entertainment, love and hope, it will have huge appeal to the early teenager. Californian...
Featured in: 11+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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