Michelle Paver





Michelle Paver

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January 01, 1960

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Michelle Paver was born in Central Africa, but came to England as a child. After gaining a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University, she became a partner in a City law firm, but eventually gave that up to write full-time.

The hugely successful Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series arose from Michelle's lifelong passion for animals, anthropology and the distant past - as as well as an encounter with a large bear in a remote valley in southern California. To research the books, Michelle has traveled to Finland, Greenland, Sweden, Norway, Arctic Canada and the Carpathian Mountains. She has slept on reindeer skins, swum with wild orca (killer whales), and got nose-to-nose with polar bears - and, of course, wolves.


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On the 5th of November Michelle Paver, author of Gods and Warriors and the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, will be speaking on Puffin Virtually Live about her new series Gods and Warriors and her experiences researching and writing the second book in the series. How did she recreate the Bronze Age world? And how does she go about writing some of the book’s less human characters?


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“Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.”
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“Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people,but if your afraid,your on your own.”
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“There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”
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