Brighton Children's Book Festival - Leaping from the page
Saturday and Sunday April 19th-20th 2008, Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY
Nicky Singer
Nicky Singer has written four novels for adults, five for young people and two books of non-fiction. Feather Boy won the Blue Peter ‘Book of the Year’ Award and has been adapted both for television (winning a BAFTA for Best Children’s Drama) and as a musical (with lyrics by Don Black and music by Debbie Wiseman) for the National Theatre Shell Connections series. Nicky’s forthcoming novel is The Knight Crew, a re-telling of the Arthur legend set in contemporary gangland. She’s currently writing a libretto based on The Knight Crew for a youth opera to be premiered at Glyndebourne in 2010.

 

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