Rick Allden writes adventurous, humorous, and heartfelt middle-grade fiction. He holds an MA in creative writing and whips it out at parties.

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He is currently querying two novels:​

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• ​The Call of the Carousel - On her tenth birthday, Emily is swept from a travelling funfair into The Beneath, where she must face dangers as magical as they are menacing to uncover the truth about her missing parents.​​​

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• Moontide - When Ben spends the summer at a seaside pub, he stumbles into a centuries-old mystery and a secret society of children guarding a deadly legacy.

 

 

 

One book for each of his children (who'll soon be older enough to read this). No favouritism here.

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Before focusing on children’s fiction, Rick was an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, selected for the BBC Voices talent programme and shortlisted for BBC & National Theatre Wales Writer in Residence.

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Selected theatre feedback (the good stuff):

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"Wonderful...a lovely script," Rob Brydon

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"A beautiful and complex piece...fantastic work," Maxine Peake

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"What a lovely piece," Brenda Blethyn

 

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