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ANN COBURN
Nationality: English
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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by Jodie Hodges
Ann Coburn lives in Berwick upon Tweed and the wild landscape of North Northumberland often features in her writing. Her most recent books include GLINT (Random House), an award-winning novel for older readers, and DREAM TEAM (Walker Books),a fiction series for younger children about a team of trainee Dream Fetchers. The first four DREAM TEAMbooks are out now and the next four are coming soon. When not writing under her own name, Ann leads a parallel life as a childrens fiction ghost writer, and also writes for stage and T.V. Her first theatre play, GET UP & TIE YOUR FINGERS (Oberon Books), had a successful run at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival and won the Arts Councils 1997 John Whiting award for new theatre writing. She has since written six more theatre plays, for both adults and children. Anns plays are published by Oberon Books.
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Alex And the Warrior Alex And the Winter Star Daytime Devil's Ground, The Get Up And Tie Your Fingers SafeAlex And the Warrior
Alex wanted his grandFather home from hospital for Christmas. He wishes that his favourite computer war game character could help him. and when the Warrior steps through the computer screen he realises that you have to be careful what you wish for.
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Top of PageAlex And the Winter Star
In this hilarious sequel to Alex and the Warrior, Alex and Cat are once again faced keeping the unruly Warrior under control. One year older, Alex has started to doubt his old friend Warrior, but Warrior cannot leave until he's vanquished his deadly enemy the Skarg . . .Somehow the dreaded Skarg - who still can't decide whether to destroy the earth or star in the next Hollywood movie - have found a way to break out of the game and with their new found freedom are planning world domination!. Only through securing the help of his friend Alex can Warrior stop the villains dastardly plans and save the world from invasion . . .Incorporating the themes of friendship and what it means to belong, Alex and the Winter Star is not only play jam packed with adventure, danger and magic, but is underlined by important concepts and issues. Ideal for young actors and schools, alex's new adventures are sure to capture the imagination of young readers, sending them spinning into a mystical world of possibilities
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Top of PageDevil's Ground, The
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Borders Festival 2002
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Contained in "Three Plays" published by Oberon Books 978-1840023643
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Top of PageGet Up And Tie Your Fingers
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Set at the time of the eyemouth fishing disaster of 1881, the play follows the lives of three fisher women in a gutting crew who "follow the herring" whilst coping with death, dealing with guilt and learning to let our children go.
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Borders Festival 1995
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