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Media Alert: Who is Claire North?



 Media Alert: Who is Claire North?

 Press release:
Last night ‘Claire North’ gave her first interview, on BBC Radio 2 on the Simon Mayo Book Club where she was revealed acclaimed fantasy author Catherine Webb (details attached). It’s a great interview and I would urge you to take a listen here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418nss and see a picture of Catherine with Simon Mayo here: https://twitter.com/BBCRadio2/status/458664277696475136/photo/1
Yesterday I posted the review online of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and mentioned more than a few times the anonymous author Claire North. Now last night I recieved an email with a press release and it really wow-ed me! Because Claire North is non other than Catherine Webb!! I am a huge fan of her urban fantasy series Magicals Anonymous and Matthew Swift and now that I think about it see did mention late last year that she was working on a super secret project, one she wasn't allowed to give any details about. This must have been The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August! 

You know what the best thing is?? THERE WILL BE A SECOND BOOK! YES!!!

The revised bio of Catherine Webb as of yesterday:
 
Catherine Webb is a Carnegie Medal-nominated British author.

Her debut, Mirror Dreams, was completed when Catherine was just 14 years old. The book was published under her own name in 2002 by Atom Books. The novel garnered comparisons with Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman.

Catherine went on to publish a further seven young adult novels under her own name, earning extensive critical acclaim and two Carnegie nominations for her novels Timekeepers and The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle.

Under the open pseudonym Kate Griffin, Webb has published a further six fantasy novels for adults. Dubbed the Matthew Swift and Magicals Anonymous novels, these books are set in an alternate modern-day London saturated with magic.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is the first novel Webb has penned
under the pseudonym Claire North. Webb has already written a second novel to be published under the Claire North name entitled Touch – due for release in February 2015.

A lifelong Londoner, Webb describes herself as a fan of big cities, urban magic, Thai food and graffiti-spotting, and she is endlessly fascinated by such questions as who leaves copies of the yellow pages on top of bus shelters, how the hidden tunnels beneath the sorting office were built, and why anyone would ever dispose of perfectly good pairs of shoes by throwing them over the nearest telephone line.

Catherine read History at the London School of Economics, and studied at RADA. In addition to penning novels, Catherine also currently works as a theatre lighting designer.
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