Story Ore Blog: Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness Renn

Friday, October 21, 2011

Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness Renn

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Michelle Paver was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in central Africa. Her mother was Belgian and her South African father ran a newspaper, the Nyasaland Times. Her family settled in Wimbledon, England when she was three. She was educated at The Study and Wimbledon High School. After reading biochemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she attained a first-class degree, she became a partner in a City of London law firm. Her father's death in 1996 prompted her to take a one-year sabbatical, during which she travelled around France and America and wrote her first book, Without Charity. She resigned from legal practice soon after her return, to concentrate on writing.
The first of the series, Wolf Brother was published in 2004 and as a whole the books have sold over 1 million copies in the UK. Paver was paid a reported £2.8 million advance for the first book. Ghost Hunter (2010), the sixth and last in the series, won the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Michelle Paver's new series of books for children is titled Gods and Warriors, set during the Bronze Age. It tells the story of Hylas, a 12-year-old goatherd, whose adventures take him to Crete and Egypt, and also heavily features animals in the plot - a lion, a falcon and a dolphin.