Margaret McAllister
MARGARET McALLISTER lives in West Yorkshire with her husband, a practicing Minister. With a background in teaching, Margaret has always enjoyed making up stories and in the early nineties found the time to put these down on paper. Her first book A Friend for Rachel (now The Secret Mice) was published in 1997 by Oxford University Press. Margaret has since gone on to publish three further novels with OUP and many literacy titles in their Reading Tree series. Her Mistmantle Chronicles have now been published by Bloomsbury, the first of which was shortlisted for the Ottakar’s Children’s Book Prize. As a child, Margaret’s favourite books were The Chronicles of Narnia and The Children of Green Knowe. More recently, Margaret has enjoyed reading David Almond’s Skellig (Hodder Children’s Books), Pauline Fisk’s Midnight Blue (Lion) and the Harry Potter series. In addition to writing, Margaret enjoys dance, theatre, music and history, and is currently learning how to play the piano. High Crag Linn, a powerful historical novel set in the heart of fifteenth century war torn England, is Margaret's latest novel.