Between 2004 and 2007, Siobhan wrote four outstanding novels for young people, all of which have won awards. For her last novel Bog Child (2009), she became the first author to be posthumously awarded the UK’s premier accolade for children’s writing - the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
A Monster Calls (2011)
by Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay (based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd) “Compelling…Powerful and Impressive” Phillip Pullman “When does a writer really die? Since Dowd’s death, her...
Solace Of The Road (2009)
“Dowd writes with economy, sympathy and an unflagging perceptiveness about the human condition: Holly’s odyssey could have been far more harrowing than Dowd’s first novel about teen pregnancy,...
Bog Child (2008)
‘Bog Child is a radiant work, written by a novelist of subtle and complex literary gifts at the height of her powers.’ The Guardian Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus...
The London Eye Mystery (2007)
Monday, 24 May, 11.32 a.m. Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye. He turns and waves and the pod rises from the ground. Monday, 24 May, 12.02 p.m. The pod lands and the...
A Swift Pure Cry (2006)
“Written with a fluent, lyrical sprightliness, this poigniant novel invests tragic events with humanity and even, in places, humour” ?The Sunday Times After Shell’s mother dies, her...