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Berlie Doherty

BERLIE DOHERTY

  (1943 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Veronique Baxter

Berlie Doherty has been a compulsive writer of novels, plays, sttories and poetry for all ages since 1982. She has written over fifty books, and is translated into twenty one languages. Many of her books have been dramatised for radio, television and the stage. She has won many awards around the world, including the Carnegie Medal for Dear Nobody and Granny Was A Buffer Girl. She was also runner-up for the Carnegie withWilla and Old Miss Annie. She has written libretti for operas, including the Sheffield Crucible Music in the Round prodution of her novel Daughter of the Sea. Her dramatisations of her novels Dear Nobody and Street Child are frequently performed in schools and theatres around the world. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Derby University for excellence in her field. Many of her books are set in the Peak District, where she now lives, and where she spends her spare time walking, day-dreaming, and enjoying music.

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below is a list of Berlie Doherty's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Amazing Journey of Jazz O'Neill, The         Case For Probation, A         Dear Nobody         Granny Was A Buffer Girl         Growing Girl's Story, A         Home         Lorna Doone         Matthew, Come Home         Memories         Morgan's Field         Return To Ebro         Sleeping Beauty, The         Smells and Spells         Snake-Stone, The         Street Child         Thin Air         Tilly Mint and Dodo Dac

Amazing Journey of Jazz O'Neill, The

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Crucible Theatre, Sheffield    1984

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Case For Probation, A

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A teenage girl sets fire to a community centre

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Hutchinson Education 1986   -

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Youth play

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Dear Nobody

Dear Nobody
explores what happens to young people and their parents when faced with the unknown.

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Revival

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New Victoria, N Staffs    1995

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Collins educational   978-0003200041

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Granny Was A Buffer Girl

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Family secrets are revealed as Jess prepares for a gap year in France

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Collins educational   -

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Growing Girl's Story, A

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Yorkshire Arts Circus tour    1989

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Home

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Unwin Hyman 1982   -

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Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone
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Based on the book by R D Blackmoore

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Collins educational   978-0003302264

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Matthew, Come Home

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in "Foster, J.L., Drama 2" Macmillan, 1987   -

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Memories

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Morgan's Field

Morgan's Field
The Guardian of an ancient field chooses the right person to purchase it

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Original title: "Howard's Field"

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Collins educational   978-0003013467

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Return To Ebro

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Manchester Library Theatre    1986

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Sleeping Beauty, The

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New Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent    1993

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Smells and Spells

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Crucible Theatre, Sheffield    1980

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Snake-Stone, The

Snake-Stone, The
James is fifteen - he is a keen diver and trains hard. He has always known that he is adopted a decides to go in search of his birth mother

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Oxford University Press   978-0198320876

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Street Child

Street Child
a street urchin is discovered by Doctor Bernardo

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Collins educational   978-0003302226

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Thin Air

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a young man's dream of flight has ghostly consequences. Set in the shadow of two World Wars, this haunting family saga is a tale of ambition and secrets and passions unspent. a supernatural story of a World War I fighter pilot who returns home in possession of a secret that will haunt his community for generations to come.

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Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham by Sea    09 Feb 2012

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Cotton Grass Theatre

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Tilly Mint and Dodo Dac

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