Geraldine Harris

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Books

• White Cranes Castle, Macmillan 1979
  'Geraldine Harris wears her obvious learning lightly and subtly provides the necessary glosses without interfering with the pace of this far distant yet gripping adventure' Junior Bookshelf

  Seven Citadels, Macmillan 1983 / Unwin 1985 and translated into six languages

  1. Prince of the Godborn
  2. Children of the Wind
  3. The Dead Kingdom
  4. The Seventh Gate

  'Seven Citadels is beyond question a major achievement ... it cannot be said too often that this is not a children's book, however many children may be numbered among those who come under its spell. It is a book for readers who are proved worth of it.' Junior Bookshelf

  The stories are all long and complex ... but the four main characters -- and the interplay between them -- are fascinating, and the imagery in the writing is beautiful and inventive.' The Horn Book

  This is intricate in structure and crowded with characters -- but Harris has compensated for this by writing with pace and momentum, providing action and variey, and -- above all -- creating characters with depth and distinction.' Chicago Bulletin for the Center for Children's Book

  Harris's characters are among the most believable in fantasy literature' School Library Journal

  Jeremy Marshall's Seven Citadels site

Short stories

• Iron Shoes, in Arrows of Eros, ed. Alex Stewart, NEL 1989
• Urgeya's Choice, in Hidden Turnings, ed. Diana Wynne Jones, Methuen 1989 / Greenwillow 1990

Eye of the Sun

Dreamwitch

I am not the author of

• Staging Feminities,
• David and the Whirly Fish, or
• The Pear Tree murders (whatever the Bodleian library may think)

Email me at grhp@chalcedon.demon.co.uk.

Phone: (UK 01242 / +44 1242) 583 568. Fax: 704 635

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This page last updated 01/04/2007 by Richard Pinch