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Michelle Paver
Born in Malawi to a Belgian mother and a father who ran the tiny 'Nyasaland Times', Michelle Paver moved to the UK when she was three. She grew up in Wimbledon and, following a Biochemistry Degree from Oxford, she became a partner in a City law firm. Eventually, she gave up her career in law to follow her long-held dream of becoming a writer. Successfully published as an adult author of historical fiction, CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS are her first - brilliant - books for children.
About Michelle Paver and The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness:
- She wrote her first story on her mother’s typewriter at the age of 5. (Her mother still has it!)
- She has always been fascinated by prehistoric times and skinned a dead rabbit at the age of 10. She ditched of her bed and slept on her bedroom floor for 3 years as a child.
- She dug up the lawn of her parents’ house and planted medicinal plants which she tried out on her sister.
- She skipped lectures in biochemistry at Oxford University to write.
- The Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness Series has been universally popular. The series is made up of Wolf Brother (2004) Spirit Walker (2005), Soul Eater (2006) and Outcast (2007) so far. There will be 6 books in the series.
- The books have been translated into 36 languages.
- Ridley Scott has bought the film rights and a script is being worked on currently.
- She gave up a successful career as a Partner in a City Law Firm in 1999 to write full time.
- She has travelled to inaccessible and unusual places researching her books including the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania, Finland and Greenland and Northern Canada.
- On her travels, she has had some unforgettable, unique and heart-stopping experiences including learning the traditional skills of the Inuit people and coming face-to-face with wild polar bears through the observation platform grille of a tundra buggy. She has swum with killer whales, gone husky-sledding and faked a wolf kill to attract ravens.
- She has eaten some very unusual food in the name of research, including, raw whale blubber, fresh seal liver (still warm from when it was killed), fish eyes, seal flippers (these are put under rocks and left for 3 months after which time they are considered a delicacy), all sorts of wild berries, tree bark and sap.
- The only thing she has ever refused to eat was the seal eyes, though these are considered a delicacy by the Inuit and eaten by the grannies! There is absolutely no wastage when these animals are killed and every bit of them is used for food or materials so don’t be put off by any perception of cruelty.
- She has many artefacts from her travels including reindeer skin gloves and a necklace made of bear claws and teeth.
Titles in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series:
1. Wolf Brother
3. Soul-eater
4. Outcast
5. Oathbreaker
6. Ghost Hunter
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Michelle Paver
Dazzling entertainment and seamless storytelling from the winner of the Guardian Book of the Year Award 2010 with Ghost Hunter, the final title in the quite superb Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series. To celebrate the culmination of the series the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 11/11/2010
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Michelle Paver
Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2010. This is the final book in the best-selling CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS. Dazzling entertainment, seamless storytelling, this is the stunning 6th and final episode, bringing the bestselling ‘The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness’, which began...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Michelle Paver
Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2010. This is the final book in the best-selling CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS. Dazzling entertainment, seamless storytelling, this is the stunning 6th and final episode, bringing the bestselling ‘The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness’,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/08/2009
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Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Ghost Hunter. Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2010. This is the final book in the best-selling CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS.
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 20/08/2009
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Michelle Paver
This is the series that began with Wolf Brother and now continues with the story of Torak alongside his trusted and loyal Wolf. Once an outcast, Torak has been happy with his life among the Seal Clan and especially...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
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Michelle Paver
Welcome to best-selling author Michelle Paver’s latest in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.This is the series that began with Wolf Brother and now continues with the story of Torak alongside his trusted and loyal Wolf. Once an outcast,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Oath Breaker.
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/09/2008
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Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Outcast.
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 02/06/2008
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Michelle Paver
This series just gets better and better with each new title. Outcast is the fourth in the series and here Torak has to pit his wits against everyone - particularly his former friends and now foe as a consequence of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2008
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Michelle Paver
This series just gets better and better with each new title. Outcast is the fourth in the series - I believe there will be six in total - and here Torak has to pit his wits against everyone - particularly...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Michelle Paver
Hugh (11) - Once I had picked up the book I could not put it down and I read till long past my bedtime and every morning. I was in Torak’s world all day and in my bed I'd go...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 07/06/2007
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Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Soul Eater.
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 07/09/2006
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Michelle Paver
Hugh (11) - Once I had picked up the book I could not put it down and I read till long past my bedtime and every morning. I was in Torak’s world all day and in my bed I go...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2006
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Michelle Paver
This is a worthy second novel in the CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS trilogy, the first was Wolf Brother that we praised so highly earlier this year. Non-stop action on every page dovetails beautifully with heart-stopping narrative and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2006
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Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Spirit Walker.
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 07/09/2005
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Michelle Paver
Rich in detail which brings the past to life and makes the forest background vivid to all readers, Wolf Brother tells how orphaned Torak must set out on a terrible mission. Tricked, trapped and betrayed at almost every turn, it’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2005
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Michelle Paver
CD Audio of Wolf Brother.
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 16/09/2004
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