Since leaving her lobbyist job at Oxfam to become a full-time children's writer, Julia Golding has won awards for her Companion Quartet and Cat Royal series. Her latest book, The Ship Between the Worlds (OUP, £5.99), is about a modern teenager swept up in a pirate adventure.
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