Chris Wooding
Chris Wooding is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, Crashing, which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and Poison, which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author of three different, completed series; Broken Sky, an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, Braided Path, a fantasy trilogy for adults, and Malice, a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, Tales of the Ketty Jay, a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults.Works
- The Weavers of Saramyr
- The Skein of Lament
- The Ascendancy Veil
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- Malice
- Havoc
''Tales of the Ketty Jay''
- Retribution Falls
- The Black Lung Captain
- The Iron Jackal
- Ace of Skulls
- The Ember Blade
- Kerosene
- Broken Sky series
- Endgame
- The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
- Poison
- Storm Thief
- The Fade
- Pandemonium
- Silver
Awards and nominations
- 2001: The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award, category 9–11 years
- 2004: Poison won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year
- 2004: Poison nominated for the Carnegie Medal
- 2007: Storm Thief nominated for the Carnegie Medal
- 2010: Retribution Falls shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award