Tracy Traynor won the Scottish children’s fiction prize, the Kelpies Prize, and a £2,000 cheque for her first novel Nicking Time (Kelpies, £5.99), written under the name T. Traynor.
Born and brought up in Glasgow, where Nicking Time is set, she was an English teacher in Greece before settling down near Oxford.
The book is a spooky time-travel adventure involving a gang of boys in Glasgow’s late 1970s Southside. In her real name, she has written language learning books for organisations such as BBC Worldwide and Oxford University Press.
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