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Celia Rees has written over twenty novels and has become a leading writer for Young Adults with an international reputation.
Celia Rees is an English author.

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Celia Rees

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Born

Solihull, West Midlands, The United Kingdom

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http://www.celiarees.com/

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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August 2009

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Celia Rees (born 1949) is an English author of children's, YA and Adult fiction.

She was born in 1949 in Solihull, West Midlands but now lives in Leamington Spa with her husband. Rees attended University of Warwick and earned a degree in History of Politics. After university, she taught English in Coventry secondary schools for seventeen years, during which time she began to write.

Since then, she has written over twenty YA titles. Her books have been translated into 28 languages. She has been short listed for the Guardian, Whitbread (now Costa) and W.H. Smith Children’s Book Awards. She is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She has been Chair of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group and on the Society of Authors’ Management CCelia Rees (born 1949) is an English author of children's, YA and Adult fiction.

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Celia Rees is a leading writer for Young Adults with an international reputation.

Her titles include Witch Child (shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize), Sorceress, (shortlisted for the Whitbread - now Costa - Children's Book Award), Pirates! (shortlisted for W.H.Smith Award), Sovay and Glass Town Wars.

The chance discovery of an old family cookery book has now taken her writing in a new and different direction. In 2012, she began researching and writing her first novel for adults, Miss Graham’s War, published by HarperCollins in July, 2020.

“Modern master of historical fiction”

(previously Miss Graham’s Cold War Cook Book)

An ordinary woman.
A book of recipes.
The perfect cover for spying…

Sent to Germany in the chaotic aftermath of World War II, Edith Graham is finally getting the chance to do her bit. Having taught at a girls’ school during the conflict, she leaps at the opportunity to escape an ordinary life – but Edith is not everything she seems to be.

Under the guise of her innocent cove

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Celia Rees has written over twenty novels and has become a leading writer for Young Adults with an international reputation. She says, ‘I like to write what teenagers like to read’.

She has written in different genre, from gritty realism, ghost stories and horror before focusing on historical fiction with the publication of Witch Child, its sequel, Sorceress, going on to Pirates!,Sovay and The Fool’s Girl.

Her books have been translated into 28 languages and she has been short listed for the Guardian, Whitbread (Costa) and W.H. Smith Children’s Book Awards. Her books have won awards in the UK, USA, France and Italy. Her latest book for Young Adults, Glass Town Wars, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.

Miss Graham’s War marks another significant departure. Sparked by the chance discovery of an old family recipe book, Miss Graham’s War (formerly Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook) is her first novel for adults, published by HarperCollins, July 2020.