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Frank Cottrell-Boyce

(b.1959)

Frank Cottrell Boyce is a screenwriter whose films include Welcome to Sarajevo, Hilary and Jackie, 24 Hour Party People, and Millions, which was also his first book. Framed was inspired by a news story he'd read in an old scrapbook: During the Second World War, a collection of valuable paintings from the National Gallery was hidden in a slate mine for safekeeping. He couldn't resist imagining how all of that great art might have affected the people who lived near the mine. Mr. Cottrell Boyce lives with his wife and seven children in Liverpool, England.

Awards: Carnegie (2005) see all

Genres: Children's Fiction

New and upcoming books

May 2025

The Blockbusters!

Series

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
   1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again (2011)
   2. The Race Against Time (2012)
   3. Over the Moon (2013)

Novels

   Millions (2004)
   Framed (2005)
   Cosmic (2008)
   Desirable (2008)
   The Unforgotten Coat (2011)
   Triple Word Score (2014)
   The Astounding Broccoli Boy (2015)
   Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth (2016)
     aka Sputnik
   Runaway Robot (2019)
   Noah's Gold (2021)
   The Wonder Brothers (2023)
   The Blockbusters! (2025)

Collections

Lemistry (2011) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

Can't You Sleep? (2012)

Series contributed to

Comma Singles
   Permanent Granite Sunrise (2013)
   The Pitch (2013)
   A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street (2018)

World Book Day 2019
The Great Rocket Robbery (2019)

Plays show

Chapter Books show

Books containing stories by Frank Cottrell-Boyce

First Light (2022)
A Celebration of Alan Garner
edited by
Erica Wagner

A Love Letter to Europe (2019)
An outpouring of sadness and hope

When It Changed (2009)
Science Into Fiction
(Science-Into-Fiction)
edited by
Geoff Ryman

More books

Awards

2005 Carnegie Medal : Millions

Award nominations

	2024 Indie Book Award for Children's Fiction (shortlist) : The Wonder Brothers
	2017 Carnegie Medal (nominee) : Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
	2016 Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book (nominee) : The Astounding Broccoli Boy
	2011 Costa Book Award for Children's Book (nominee) : The Unforgotten Coat
	2010 Blue Peter Book Award for Book of the Year (nominee) : Cosmic
	2009 Carnegie Medal (nominee) : Cosmic
	2007 Blue Peter Book Award for Book of the Year (nominee) : Framed
	2005 Blue Peter Book Award for Book of the Year (nominee) : Millions

Frank Cottrell-Boyce recommends

Impossible Creatures (2023)
(Impossible Creatures, book 1)
Katherine Rundell
"Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as enchanting, as perilous, as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth."

The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods (2023)
Tom Holland
"The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods is a wonder, as beautiful to look at as it is entrancing to read. Jason Cockcroft's illustrations are jaw-dropping, and Tom Holland's prose took me back to my own childhood introductions to these extraordinary mythological worlds in Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greek Heroes and Leon Garfield's and Charles Keeping's The God Beneath the Sea."

River Sing Me Home (2023)
Eleanor Shearer
"Epic and lyrical, a story about love and the power it brings us."