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Theresa Breslin is an award-winning Scottish author who is popular with children, librarians and teachers. She won the Carnegie Medal for Whispers in the Graveyard, The Dream Master was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award, and Remembrance, a story of youth in World War One, was shortlisted for the South Lanarkshire, the Sheffield, and the North-East Book Awards. Divided City won the North Lanarkshire Children's Book Award in 2006 and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The Medici Seal was nominated for the 2007 Carnegie Medal. Theresa lives in Glasgow.
The novel goes at a rollicking pace . . . Is especially praiseworthy for dramatising a period of European history which children might not normally encounter * The Times * The rousing story is always clearly told and cleverly plotted * Books for Keeps * Theresa Breslin's The Nostradamus Prophecy is a superb and totally gripping story set amidst a Fresh court and country filled with tensions and uncertainties. The assured characterisation and terrific plotting hold a reader in thrall * The School Librarian * Breslin's books are always founded on immaculate research and her enthusiasm for her subject is invariably infectious * Glasgow Herald * An unputdownable read that will have you guessing and constantly on the edge of your seat until the very end -- Naomi, aged 14 * First News *
