Kate Thompson





Kate Thompson

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in Halifax, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1956

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Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults.She has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers. She worked with horses and travelled in India before settling in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor. They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, reflected in The New Policeman.

While Kate Thompson's children's fiction is primarily fantasy, several of her books also deal with the consequences of genetic engineering.

She has won the B...more


Average rating: 3.61 · 3,613 ratings · 683 reviews · 39 distinct works · Similar authors
The New Policeman
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,283 ratings — published 2005 — 22 editions
Switchers (Switchers, #1)
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions
Creature of the Night
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions
The Last of the High Kings
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
Midnight's Choice (Switcher...
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions
Wild Blood (Switchers, #3)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions
Fourth World (Missing Link,...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
The White Horse Trick (New ...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
The Beguilers
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
Only Human (Missing Link, #2)
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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“It was essential that someone, somewhere, even if it was only the fairy folk, should know that the human race had produced more than wars, catastrophes, and ultimately its own slow and painful self-destruction. It had produced things of exquisite and lasting beauty as well.”
Kate Thompson, The White Horse Trick

“There were always too many hours in the day and never enough in the night.”
Kate Thompson, Annan Water

“The realization had brought with it a sudden stark insight into another kind of glamour. It was quite a long time ago now, but he saw it quite clearly: how the media and the advertisers had created their own kind of glamour to seduce whole populations into a kind of insanity. Food that was bad for people, drink that turned them into mindless thugs, countless tons of useless rubbish, all dressed up by advertising glamour to appear like things people couldn't live without. And the human race had fallen for it hook, line, and sinker, becoming....[c]onsumers of limitless glamour, all of it ultimately worthless.”
Kate Thompson, The White Horse Trick

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