Mal Peet





Mal Peet

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born
North Walsham, Norfolk, England, The United Kingdom
gender
male


About this author

Mal Peet grew up in North Norfolk, and studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. Later he moved to southwest England and worked at a variety of jobs before turning full-time to writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. With his wife, Elspeth Graham, he has written and illustrated many educational picture books for young children, and his cartoons have appeared in a number of magazines. He and Elspeth live in Exmouth, Devon.


Average rating: 3.87 · 4,276 ratings · 969 reviews · 24 distinct works · Similar authors
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“You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.”
Mal Peet, Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal

“So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?”
Mal Peet, Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal

“What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.”
Mal Peet, Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal

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