Corinna Turner (author)

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Carnegie Medal Award nominated author Corinna Turner has been writing since she was fourteen and likes strong protagonists with plenty of integrity. She has an MA in English from Oxford University, but has foolishly gone on to work with both children and animals! Juggling work with the disabled and being a midwife to sheep, she spends as much time as she can in a little hut at the bottom of the garden, writing.

She is a Catholic Christian with roots in the Methodist and Anglican churches. A keen cinema-goer, she lives in the UK with her classic campervan ‘Toby’ (short for Tobias!), her larger and more expensive substitute for her lovely Giant African Land Snail, Peter, who sadly passed away in October 2016.

 

Corinna is currently the author of 6 published works. The I AM MARGARET series (IAM) is a series of 4 YA dystopian novels with a Christian heroine, plus 1 companion volume. She has also released SOMEDAY, a prequel novella to her new YESTERDAY & TOMORROW series. SOMEDAY is a retelling of the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls from Nigeria in 2014, with the action moved to the UK. A German translation is about to be released by a German publisher.

 

Corinna’s books have been well-received with many rave reviews, and the following awards:

• LIBERATION (Book 3 of IAM) was nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal Award 2016.
• LIBERATION also won 3rd place in for ‘Teen and Young Adult Fiction’ in the Catholic Press Association 2016 Book Awards.
• I AM MARGARET (Book 1 of IAM) was one of 2 runners-up for the ‘Teenage and Children’s Fiction’ Catholic Arts and Letters Award 2016.
• I AM MARGARET has also been awarded the Seal of Approval by the Catholic Writers Guild.
• THE THREE MOST WANTED, LIBERATION and BANE’S EYES (Books 2, 3 & 4 of IAM) have been awarded the Seal of Approval by the Catholic Writers Guild.
• SOMEDAY has also been awarded the Seal of Approval by the Catholic Writers Guild.

 

Significant reviews:

• SOMEDAY was recently reviewed by the Catholic Herald
• All of Corinna’s books have been the subject of positive reviews on numerous blogs, including that of the CTS (Catholic Truth Society), one of the UK’s largest Catholic publishers.
• I AM MARGARET & SOMEDAY have featured on a number of radio stations (Premier Christian Radio, Radio Maria, etc) often with interviews with Corinna, and also on some online talks such as Sabbath Rest Book Talks.

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