They are Kit's Wilderness (1999), Heaven Eyes (2000), Secret Heart (2001), The Fire Eaters (2003), Clay (2005), Jackdaw Summer (2008), and My Name is Mina (2010), a prequel to Skellig. Since Skellig his novels, stories, and plays have also brought international success and widespread critical acclaim. In the next seven years, four more novels by Almond made the Carnegie Medal shortlist of five to eight books. He then wrote a series of stories which drew on his own childhood, and which would eventually be published as Counting Stars, published by Hodder in 2000. His second novel, A Kind of Heaven, appeared in 1987. CareerĪlmond published his first novel in 1985, Sleepless Nights. He returned to Newcastle and worked as a part-time special needs teacher while editing the literary journal Panurge. After graduating, Almond worked as a teacher for five years he then moved to an artists' commune in Norfolk and concentrated on his writing. He was educated at the University of East Anglia and Newcastle Polytechnic. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a writer and "wrote stories and stitched them into little books." He describes his childhood as one with "much joy" but also "much sadness," losing his younger sister and father at a young age. He was raised Catholic at St Joseph's Catholic Academy and had four sisters and one brother. His father was an office manager in an engineering factory and his mother a shorthand typist. Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and raised in neighbouring Felling.
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