Not the End of the World (McCaughrean novel) - Wikipedia.
The author of more than 160 works for children, Geraldine McCaughrean establisher her career by winning a Carnegie Medal in 1988 for A Pack of Lies. 30 years on, as she claims the award for a second time for her thrilling novel of survival and courage, Where the World Ends, she opens the door to the real history that inspired this extraordinary tale.
Geraldine McCaughrean knows nothing kicks off a book quite like quoting Satan. (Well, technically the epigraph was written by John Milton, but it's something Satan says in Paradise Lost.) The quote itself is about subjectivity and how much in life is interpreted according to your state of mind.
A Pack of Lies: twelve stories in one is a children's novel with metafictional elements, written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford in 1988. It features a family antique shop whose new salesman tells historical tales to sell antiques. The stories vary widely in type. McCaughrean won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's.
Geraldine McCaughrean was born in 1951 and brought up in North London. She studied at Christ Church College of Education, Canterbury and worked in a London publishing house for 10 years before becoming a full-time writer in 1988.
Geraldine McCaughrean's best-loved novels all have an historical theme - her passion for history is evident in this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these five tales is set in the past at a moment of scientific or historical significance. Read about the book that changed the world and inspired Christopher Columbus and Da Vinci; why eleven days vanished from the English calendar in.
Not the End of the World (OUP Oxford) by Geraldine McCaughrean provides an alternative perspective on the story of the flood; Wonder (Corgi Childrens) by RJ Palacio explores what it is like to be different and the value of acceptance and friendship.
Late in 2003, I interviewed Geraldine McCaughrean via email. The interview was done for Good Reading magazine. I sent Ms McCaughrean a series of questions, to which she responded in one long email, so what you will read below is, first of all, my questions, and then her response.