The Writers of Wales Database

THOMAS, FRANCES

Website: www.francesthomas.org

Frances Thomas was born in Aberdare, but later moved to London and studied at Queen Mary College, University of London. She recently moved to Llandrindod, Powys. She has written extensively for children, and her books are published by Bloomsbury, Seren, Andersen, Pont, Bodley Head, Macmillan, Hamish Hamilton and Heinemann. She won the Tir na n–Og prize in 1981 with her children’s novel The Blindfold Track, again in 1986 for Region of the Summer Stars (Alun Books, 1985) and also in 1991 for Who Stole a Bloater? (Seren). Frances won the Tir na n-Og prize again for Finding Minerva (Pont, 2007) in 2008. She has also won the Scottish Arts Council’s award for a picture book for young children. Her first adult novel Seeing Things, was a runner–up for the Whitbread First Novel award in 1986.

Selected Publications:
For Children
The Blindfold Track (1980)
A Knot of Spells (Alun Books, 1983)
The Region of the Summer Stars (Alun Books, 1985)
Who Stole a Bloater? (Seren, 1998)
Finding Minerva (Pont, 2007)
Megan the Detective (Pont, 2008)
Megan and the Pantomime Thief (Pont, 2009)

For Adults
Seeing Things (Gollancz, 1986)
The Fall of Man (Gollancz, 1989)
Christina Rossetti  (Biography) (Virago, 1994)
 

You can contact Frances through one of her publishers, Bloomsbury, on: 0207 494 2111