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Patrice Lawrence

Patrice Lawrence is a British writer and journalist, who has published fiction both for adults and children. Her writing has won awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children and The Bookseller YA Book Prize.

Awards: CrimeFest (2021), YA Book (2017) see all

Genres: Children's Fiction, Young Adult Romance, Young Adult Fiction

New and upcoming books

January 2025

People Like Stars

Series

Elemental Detectives
1. The Elemental Detectives (2022)
2. The Case of the Chaos Monster (2023)

Novels

   Granny Ting Ting (2009)
   Orangeboy (2016)
   Indigo Donut (2017)
   Rose, Interrupted (2019)
   Eight Pieces of Silva (2020)
   Rat (2021)
   Splinters of Sunshine (2021)
   Needle (2022)
   People Like Stars (2025)

Collections

Make More Noise! (2018) (with others)
Happy Here (2021) (with others)

Series contributed to

World Book Day 2019
Snap (2019)

Voices
2. Diver's Daughter (2019)

Picture Books show

Chapter Books show

Books containing stories by Patrice Lawrence

The Super Sunny Murder Club (2024)
(Very Merry Murder Club, book 2)
edited by
Serena Patel and Robin Stevens

The Very Merry Murder Club (2021)
(Very Merry Murder Club, book 1)
edited by
Serena Patel and Robin Stevens

Awards

	2021 CrimeFest: Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults : Eight Pieces of Silva
	2018 CrimeFest: Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults : Indigo Donut
	2017 YA Book Prize : Orangeboy

Award nominations

	2023 CrimeFest: Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults (nominee) : Needle
	2023 Carnegie Medal (nominee) : Needle
	2022 CrimeFest: Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults (nominee) : Splinters of Sunshine
	2021 YA Book Prize (nominee) : Eight Pieces of Silva
	2018 YA Book Prize (nominee) : Indigo Donut
	2017 CrimeFest: Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults (nominee) : Orangeboy
	2016 Costa Book Award for Children's Book (nominee) : Orangeboy

Patrice Lawrence recommends

Twelve Bones (2023)
(Sixteen Souls, book 2)
Rosie Talbot
"Stunning."

And the Stars Were Burning Brightly (2020)
Danielle Jawando
"An outstanding and compassionate debut."

That Asian Kid (2019)
Savita Kalhan
"A funny and astute book about friendships, dodgy teachers, and a ticking time bomb video that goes viral!."

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