Kate Thompson





Kate Thompson

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

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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 · 2,706 ratings · 599 reviews · 25 distinct works
The New Policeman (New Poli...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions
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Switchers (Switchers, #1)
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions
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Creature of the Night
3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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Midnight's Choice (Switcher...
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 172 ratings11 editions
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Wild Blood (Switchers, #3)
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 124 ratings8 editions
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Fourth World (Missing Link,...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 101 ratings5 editions
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The White Horse Trick (New ...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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The Beguilers
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions
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Only Human (Missing Link, #2)
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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More books by Kate Thompson…
The New Policeman The Last of the High Kings The White Horse Trick
New Policeman (3 books)
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3.6695046439628483 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
Switchers Midnight's Choice Wild Blood
Switchers (3 books)
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3.7205169628432957 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 619 ratings
Fourth World Only Human Origins
Missing Link (3 books)
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3.712121212121212 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 198 ratings

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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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