Claire Fayers

Represented by Gemma Cooper

Claire Fayers writes comic fantasy featuring swashbuckling pirates, evil magicians, heroic librarians and man-eating penguins.

She grew up in South Wales, studied English in Canterbury, and is now back in Wales where she spends a lot of her free time tramping around castles in the rain, looking for dragons.

Her first book came about quite accidentally after she won a writing competition. She was more surprised than anyone. That book, VOYAGE TO MAGICAL NORTH, went on to debut as Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the FCBG Children’s Book Award. Claire’s other books include THE JOURNEY TO DRAGON ISLAND, MIRROR MAGIC, Tir ng n’Og winner STORM HOUND (Macmillan) and WELSH FAIRY TALES, MYTHS AND LEGENDS (Scholastic). Her new book, LETHE, will publish with Firefly in 2023.

She now works from her home in Cardiff and shares her workspace with a pair of demanding cats and an ever-expanding set of model dinosaurs.

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