Marcus continued to write at least one book a year. The Dark Horse (2001) was a runner-up for the Guardian children’s fiction prize and shortlisted for the Blue Peter book award and the Carnegie medal. ‘I’ve written this thing, is it any good?’ he’d ask.”įloodland is still in print and read extensively in schools. “He was always bursting with ideas and could create different worlds while keeping his stories very easy to relate to … He had a vast brain as well as all of that creativity.”ĭespite his prolific ideas and early success, he was, Kennedy said, “shy and diffident about each new book. “And he was ahead of his time in writing about climate change just then.” Kennedy, who continued to work with him, watched his career flourish. “Marcus’s writing was striking even in that first novel,” said his editor, Fiona Kennedy. The Dark Horse (2001), Marcus Sedgwick’s second novel, was a runner-up for the Guardian children’s fiction prize.
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