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Lucy Coats

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Basingstoke, The United Kingdom

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Children's, Fantasy, Young Adult

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In 2015 I have 6 upcoming titles, 4 books in the brand-new Beasts of Olympus series from Piccadilly Press (Grosset and Dunlap/Penguin Young Readers in the USA), an early reader called The Little Green Drum from Orion and my first proper YA novel, Cleo, from Orchard. Cleo is a mixture of historical and paranormal, and follows the teenage Cleopatra on her journey to become pharaoh. I'm very excited about it indeed!

I was born in a small village in Hampshire, England. I loved reading from an early age, and was never found without some kind of book in my hand from the time I could turn and page and make sense of what was written there. My first job was as an editor of children's books, but I soon jumped the fence and started writing my own. My ...more

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	Beast Keeper by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Brett Bean (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 3.88 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hound of Hades (Beasts of Olympus, #2) by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Brett Bean (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 4.10 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atticus the Storyteller by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Tre Lewis (Illustrator) 4.48 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steeds of the Gods (Beasts of Olympus, #3) by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Brett Bean (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 4.22 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon Healer (Beasts of Olympus, #4) by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Brett Bean (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cleo (Cleo #1) 3.16 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Centaur School (Beasts of Olympus, #5) by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Brett Bean (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zeus's Eagle (Beasts of Olympus, #6) by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Brett Bean (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 119 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Beastlie's Pirate Party by Lucy Coats (Goodreads Author), Chris Mould (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unicorn Emergency (Beasts of Olympus, #8) 4.21 avg rating — 91 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Last Leaves Falling

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey

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