Joss Stirling | |
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Author of the Benedicts Series | |
Name |
Julia Golding |
D.O.B. |
March 1969 |
Occupation |
Novelist |
Notable Works |
The Cat Royal Series |
Website |
[www.jossstirling.co.uk] |
On leaving Poland, she exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford. She then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones.
Julia is now married with three children. She lives in Oxford and writes full-time.
Awards[]
She has won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize with the first book in her Cat Royal series, The Diamond of Drury Lane. She was selected in 2007 as one of Waterstone's 25 authors of the future.