The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant

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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.Īllows CloudFlare CDN to read and filter requests from bots. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. She now lives in Perthshire, Scotland, with her husband and two children she spends her spare time visiting ancient churches and ruined castles, looking for fresh inspiration. She has also run sessions about getting published for budding authors.īorn in London, Helen has lived in Spain, Germany and Flanders. Helen enjoys coaching others and has taught English as a second language in the UK and Germany. James and the Modern Ghost Story symposium in 2015. Her paper about the demonology of one of these stories was well received at the M.R. She has a particular interest in James’s foreign story locations, most of which she has visited. James, Helen has also written a number of essays about them for the small press literary journal the Ghosts & Scholars M.R. A first collection of these, The Sea Change & Other Stories, was published by Swan River Press in 2013.Ī lifelong enthusiast of the stories of M.R. In addition to her novels, Helen writes ghost stories for adults. Since then, Helen has written a further five novels, including Urban Legends, published by Random House in 2015. Her first novel, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, was published by Penguin in 2009 it was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Booktrust Teenage prize, and won an ALA Alex award in the USA. She draws on atmospheric locations and local folklore for inspiration her books are distinctive for their international settings. Helen Grant writes Gothic thrillers for a crossover (young adult/adult) audience.

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant