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Piers Torday is a British novelist and playwright.
His novels include: The Last Wild (2013), The Dark Wild (2014, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize), The Wild Beyond (2015), There May Be a Castle (2016), The Lost Magician (2018) and The Frozen Sea (2019).
His works for the stage include: Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale after Dickens (Wilton's Music Hall, London, 2019) and an adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights (Wilton's Music Hall, 2017, revived 2018).
(Author photo by James Betts) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. His major works include: The Pickwick Papers (1836), Oliver Twist (1837-9), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9), A Christmas Carol (1843), Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4), David Copperfield (1849-50), Bleak House (1852-3), Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1855-7), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1), Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) and the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), as well as other novels, books and short stories. None of his major works has ever gone out of print. |
