Piers Torday

British children's writer (born 1974)

Piers Torday (born 1974) is a British children's writer. The son of the novelist Paul Torday, he was born in Northumberland and was a theatre and television producer for many years.^[1]^[2]

His book The Dark Wild (2014) won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2014.^[3] After Torday's father died, leaving an unfinished novel manuscript The Death of An Owl, Torday completed the novel.^[1]

Torday's adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was performed at Wilton's Music Hall in Shadwell in east London between 1 December 2017 and 6 January 2018,^[4] and revived at the same venue between 30 November 2018 and 5 January 2019.^[5] It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company from 31 October 2023, running until 7 January 2023.

He has visited schools and libraries across the UK such as Edward Peake Middle School.

Works

The Lost Magician, 2019
The Frozen Sea, 2019
The Last Wild, 2013
The Dark Wild, 2014
The Wild Beyond, 2015
There May Be a Castle, 2016

References

^ ^a ^b Piers Torday: finishing his father’s last novel, The Guardian, 7 May 2016.
^ Piers Torday website, accessed 6 March 2018
^ Emily Drabble, Piers Torday wins for 'wildly inventive' adventure, The Guardian, 14 November 2014.
^ "The Box of Delights". Wilton's. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
^ "The Box of Delights by Piers Torday based on the novel by John Masefield". www.wiltons.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2019.