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Sherry AshworthSherry AshworthBack | Genres | Bibliography | Prizes and awards | Author statement | Contact details | Related links | Printer-friendly version
BiographySherry Ashworth was born in 1953 and grew up in London, studying English Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Medieval Studies at the University of York. In 1977 she moved to Manchester, and taught English in secondary schools for a number of years. She now teaches Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
She has written features for many major newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph, has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, and has written columns for Manchester Evening News and the Big Issue.
She has written several books for adults and young adults, set wholly or partly in Manchester. Her first published book was A Matter of Fat (1991), a comic novel for adults about a slimming club. This was followed by several more adult novels including Personal Growth, a sequel, in 1993; No Fear (1996); Money Talks (1997); and Just Good Friends (1998).
Her first book for young adults was What's Your Problem? (1999), on the theme of bullying. Disconnected (2002) is about exam pressure. Blinded by the Light (2003), a thriller about a teenage boy who is drawn into a cult, was shortlisted for the Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award and won the 2003 North East Book Award. Her latest book for young adults is Close-Up (2006). Paralysed (2005) won the South Lanarkshire Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year Award and is about someone dealing with a spinal cord injury.
She has also written three non-fiction books for teenagers: two GCSE guides, English Language (2001) and English Literature (2001); and Fat (1997), which deals with body image.
Genres (in alphabetical order)Fiction, Non-fiction, Young adult
BibliographyA Matter of Fat Commonword, 1991 Personal Growth Signet, 1993 The Perfect Mother Michael Joseph, 1994 No Fear Signet, 1996 Fat Scholastic, 1997 Money Talks Hodder & Stoughton, 1997 Just Good Friends Hodder & Stoughton, 1998 What's Your Problem? Livewire, 1999 Is He Worth It? Livewire, 2000 Otherwise Engaged Hodder & Stoughton, 2000 English Language (illustrated by Polly Dunbar) Scholastic, 2001 English Literature Scholastic, 2001 Let's Get Physical Hodder & Stoughton, 2001 Disconnected Collins Flamingo, 2002 Blinded by the Light Collins Flamingo, 2003 Something Wicked Collins, 2004 The Dream Travellers Simon & Schuster, 2004 Paralysed Simon & Schuster, 2005 Close-Up Simon & Schuster, 2006
Prizes and awards2003 North East Book Award Blinded by the Light 2004 Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award (shortlist) Blinded by the Light 2005 Wirral Children's Book of the Year Award (shortlist) Something Wicked 2006 Leicester Book of the Year Award Paralysed 2006 Red House Children's Book Award (shortlist) Paralysed 2006 Redbridge Children's Book Award (shortlist) Paralysed 2006 Renfrewshire Teenage Book Award (shortlist) Paralysed 2006 South Lanarkshire Book Award Paralysed
Author statementFor me, writing is all about communicating. It’s a way of talking to lots of people on a one-to-one basis by telling them stories, and best of all I love stories that are about people and what makes them tick.
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