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    CHRISTINA COURTENAY

    Apr 02, 2020 4 minutes

    Over the past decade, historical, time-slip and contemporary YA novelist Christina Courtenay has won many prizes and accolades for her fiction set in the USA, the UK, the Far East, Scandinavia and Japan. She has also seen her work translated into many languages and produced in volume, ebook and audio format.

    Christina now has a new publisher, Headline, and is heading off in some new directions – or rather, she’s returning to her roots – for a new series of stories, Echoes of the Runes.

    When did she first realise she wanted to be a novelist – late or early in life?

    ‘Fairly late, actually,’ she says. ‘I was always a voracious reader, but I had never even thought

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