Mal Peet dies

Author Mal Peet has died, his agent Peter Cox has announced. Peet died last night (2nd March), after being diagnosed with cancer just last Christmas. The writer, whose latest novel The Murdstone Trilogy came out in 2014, won a number of awards during his career, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Prize and the Branford Boase Award. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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