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Julia Golding

Julia Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. After reading English at Cambridge, she joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.
On leaving Poland, she exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford. She then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones.

Married with three children, Julia now lives in Oxford and works as a freelance writer. The Diamond of Drury Lane is her first novel. 

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Wolf Cry
Wolf Cry
Julia Golding
A dramatic and moving story of an unlikely alliance between a young Viking girl and the African slave her father has given her. Left alone after her village is destroyed and her brother captured by raiding pirates, Freydis survives until...
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Black Heart Of Jamaica (A Cat Royal Novel)
Black Heart Of Jamaica (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Spirited Cat Royal, a girl with ambition and courage, is back for a fifth adventure. This time she’s on the high seas and gets caught up with pirates and a slave revolt. As ever, Cat overcomes her fears as the...
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Den Of Thieves (A Cat Royal Novel)
Den Of Thieves (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Den of Thieves is the thrilling third volume in the Cat Royal series that began with The Diamond of Drury Lane. As an underground reporter in Paris with men desperate for her attention, Cat finds herself homeless and caught up...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
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Dragonfly
Dragonfly
Julia Golding
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The Chimera's Curse: Companion's Quartet: Bk. 4
The Chimera's Curse: Companion's Quartet: Bk. 4
Julia Golding
This is the dramatic conclusion to the incredible Companions Quartet and is arguably the most thrilling out of the companion series. Lovers of these books will find...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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The Diamond of Drury Lane (A Cat Royal Novel)
The Diamond of Drury Lane (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. Winner of Nestle Children's Award 2006 Cat Royal, the feisty little orphan-girl brought up in a theatre, is a brilliant narrator of this terrific action-packed adventure. There’s intrigue, politics,...
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Black Heart Of Jamaica (A Cat Royal Novel)
Black Heart Of Jamaica (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Spirited Cat Royal, a girl with ambition and courage, is back for a fifth adventure. This time she’s on the high seas and gets caught up with pirates and a slave revolt. As ever, Cat overcomes her fears as the...
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The Chimera's Curse
The Chimera's Curse
Julia Golding
This is the dramatic conclusion to the incredible Companions Quartet that began with Secret of the Sirens, continued in The Gorgon’s Gaze and Mines of the Minotaur. The final showdown has begun between brave Connie, the world’s only...
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Mines of the Minotaur, Companions Quartet
Mines of the Minotaur, Companions Quartet
Julia Golding
You can’t fail to be impressed by Julia Golding’s storytelling power, which grabs you at the beginning and doesn’t let go until you’ve finished, in this the third in her Companions Quartet (after Secret of the Sirens and
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The Ringmaster
The Ringmaster
Julia Golding
Darcie Lock is inadvertently thrown into a world of SAS men, espionage, corruption, polo games and fashion parades when her father is taken hostage while investigating an international smuggling ring. Darcie is commissioned to find out what happened. Armed with...
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Ship Between The Worlds
Ship Between The Worlds
Julia Golding
This is high octane, high drama on the high seas.  It’s got all the fun of Pirates of the Caribbean, the action of Master and Commander and brilliant characterization that reminds me of the masterful Treasure Island.  David Jones is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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Den Of Thieves (A Cat Royal Novel)
Den Of Thieves (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
Den of Thieves is the thrilling third volume in the Cat Royal series that began with The Diamond of Drury Lane. As an underground reporter in Paris with men desperate for her attention, Cat finds herself homeless and caught up...
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The Gorgon's Gaze, Companions Quartet
The Gorgon's Gaze, Companions Quartet
Julia Golding
Often the 2nd in a series is the weaker, but Julia Golding has surpassed herself here by delivering a totally gripping novel where once again good versus evil is the underlying theme but Connie has to get the better of...
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Gorgon's Gaze, Companions Quartet
Gorgon's Gaze, Companions Quartet
Julia Golding
Often the 2nd in a series is the weaker, but Julia Golding has surpassed herself here by delivering a totally gripping novel where once again good versus evil is the underlying theme but Connie has to get the better of...
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Cat Among The Pigeons (A Cat Royal Novel)
Cat Among The Pigeons (A Cat Royal Novel)
Julia Golding
As gripping as The Diamond of Drury Lane, which was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award (formerly the Whitbread), this stunning second volume from Julia Golding will have you captivated from page one.  It’s a rollicking good read but the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/08/2006
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Secret of the Sirens, Companions Quartet
Secret of the Sirens, Companions Quartet
Julia Golding
Julia Golding has delivered in this the first in the ‘Companions Quartet’ an absolutely gripping story of good and evil.  It’s a wonderful adventure story set in the modern day and yet in a magical and mythical world full of...
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Books by Julia Golding

Black Heart of Jamaica
Black Heart of Jamaica
Julia Golding
Cat Royal turns pirate, undertakes a Caribbean Cruise and gets mixed up in a slave revolt.
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Mines of the Minotaur The Companions Quartet
Mines of the Minotaur The Companions Quartet
Julia Golding
Connie has immense power. The trouble is, she doesn't really know how to use it, and nobody in the Society for the Protection of Mythical Beasts has enough knowledge to train her. But, only the evil shapeshifter, Kullervo understands. Unknown...
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Den of Thieves
Den of Thieves
Julia Golding
Cat Royal finds herself homeless, travels to Paris, becomes an underground reporter, nearly gets hung for being a traitor to the revolution, and is baffled by attention from numerous suitors; all the while being disguised as a prissy ballerina. This...
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