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Latest on my family history pages are the Pauncefoot family. They go back to the Norman Bernard Pauncefoot who appears several times in the Domesday Book as a landowner. Pauncefoot means “Fat Belly”.
I am the author of over 50 books: novels for children and adults, and non-fiction. They cover a wide range, with a particular love of fantasy and Celtic history. Even my contemporary crime novels have links to history and sacred places. I have been three times shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and have won the Barco de Vapor Award and the CRT Fiction Book of the Year. 50th Book Party
I am also a keen family historian. I am researching my own family history, mosty in Devon and Kent, and my husband Jack Priestley’s ancestors, mainly in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Some lines go back more than 30 generations, from paupers to lords of the manor. I even know the village in Normandy one of my ancestors came from.
WRITINGS
I am currently working on a book about the first English saints.