When A. E. Conran (Amanda) is not writing her own children’s books or working as a freelance editor, she is a children’s book specialist, school book fair book talker and children’s book club facilitator at the renowned Bay Area independent bookstore, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA.
The Lost Celt (Gosling Press, 2016) her first middle grade novel was awarded a gold medal from the Military Writers Society of America. Originally from Leicestershire, England, Amanda now lives in the Bay Area with her husband, son and daughter. She is a co-founder of the Better Books Marin workshop and is represented by Sarah Davies at Greenhouse Literary Agency.
The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate
Octavian Nothing, M. T. Anderson
The Owl Service, Alan Garner
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters