East Anglian Writers

Rosemary Hayes
 

Children's Fiction

• Secrets and Spies (Anglia Young Books/Mill Publishing, 2007) Buy Now

• Mixing It (Frances Lincoln, 2007) Buy Now

• The Gangbusters (Anglia Young Books (Mill Publishing) 2004) Buy Now

• Bright Horizon (Hodder Children’s Books 2004) Buy Now

• To the Edge of the Ocean (Hodder Children’s Books 2004) Buy Now  

• Troubled Waters (Hodder Children’s Books 2003) Buy Now  

• Blood Ties (Penguin Australia 2001)

• Follow That Lion! (Penguin Australia 2001)

• The Big Shrink (playscript) (CUP 2000) Buy Now  

• Play a Part (CUP 2000) Buy Now

• Holly and the Dream Fixer (Penguin Australia 1998)

• Towards Independence Fantasy Worlds Evaluation Pack  (CUP 1998) Buy Now

• The Silver Fox (Penguin Australia 1997)

• The Slippery Planet (CUP 1996) Buy Now  

• The Amazing Mr Mulch (CUP 1996) Buy Now  

• Mr Mulch’s Magic Mixtures (CUP 1996) Buy Now  

• The Peace Ring (CUP 1996) Buy Now  

• The Magic Sword (CUP 1996)

• Jumble Power (CUP 1996) Buy Now  

• The Treasure Cave (CUP 1996) Buy Now  

• The Grabbing Bird (CUP 1996)

• The Big Shrink (CUP 1996) Buy Now  

• Herbie’s Place (Penguin Australia 1994)

• The Smell That Got Away (Puffin 1992)

• Seal Cry (Puffin 1991)

• Mission from the Marsh (Anglia Young Books (Mill Publishing) 1991) Buy Now

• The Gremlin Buster (Puffin 1990)

• Dreamchild (Puffin 1990)

• Flight of the Mallard (Anglia Young Books (Mill Publishing) 1989) Buy Now

• The Fox in the Wood (Anglia Young Books (Mill Publishing) 1989) Buy Now  

• Scent of Danger (Blackie/Yearling 1989)

• Race against Time (Blackie/Puffin 1988)

Biography

Rosemary lives in rural Cambridgeshire but has also lived and worked in Australia and the USA. With her background in advertising, marketing and publishing, she had always written plenty of slogans, but she launched into children’s fiction with her first novel, ‘Race Against Time’ in 1988. ‘Race Against Time’, published by Puffin, was the runner-up for the Kathleen Fidler Award and since then, Rosemary has written many other books for children. Some of these are for older readers (‘Seal Cry’, ‘Herbie’s Place’ ‘The Silver Fox’, ‘Blood Ties’ and ‘Mixing It’’ for example) and some for young children (‘The Gremlin Buster’, ‘The Smell that Got Away’ ‘Holly and the Dream Fixer’ and ‘Follow that Lion!’ are probably the best known of these). She is currently working on a novel for teenagers telling the story of young Muslim girl who runs away from a forced marriage. Rosemary has also written several short historical novels for schools , nine stories in the Fantasy strand of Cambridge Reading (Cambridge University Press) and a family saga trilogy, ‘Troubled Waters’ for Hodder.

For several years Rosemary ran a small publishing company, Anglia Young Books, which is now wholly owned by Mill Publishing. She was also Project Manager for a Young Writers Award set up jointly by Cambridge University and Cambridge University Press and is a reader for a well known Author’s Advisory Service.