0 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:0.0

Claire King’s Followers (156)

Claire’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (3)
adult-literary (2)
book-club (2)
child-narrator (1)
classics (0)
contemporary (2)
fiction (2)
france (2)
See all bookshelves »

Claire’s Friends (1)

Bloomsbury Publishing

679 books | 991 friends

Claire King

Goodreads Author

Born

in The United Kingdom

January 05

Website

http://www.claire-king.com

Twitter

ckingwriter

Genre

Contemporary

Member Since

March 2011

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/claire_king

edit data

Claire King's debut novel, The Night Rainbow, was met with critical acclaim.

Her prize winning short fiction has been published online and in print including The New Scientist, The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and Writers Forum magazine.

She lives with her family in the Cotswolds. ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Claire King questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Claire King’s books

Average rating: 3.84 · 2,930 ratings · 524 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Night Rainbow 3.84 avg rating — 2,642 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Everything Love Is 3.80 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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
	A Metazen Christmas by Frank Hinton (Editor), Jordan Castro (Goodreads Author), Natasha Cabot 4.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010	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
	Wine at Breakfast: Short Story 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	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

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

95 posts
Claire King's Blog

An Early Present

It’s about the time of year people start worrying about Christmas. I know! I know it’s too early to talk about Christmas but it’s not too early to *think* about Christmas, apparently. And start worrying. And panic buying sprouts. And ham. Some people love Christmas and approach it with an enviable joy. I’m less enthusiastic, […]

View more on Claire King's website »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on October 09, 2018 09:15

View all 95 posts »

Quotes by Claire King (?)

“I know about skeletons. Once I went to a museum and saw dinosaur skeletons. They are like jigsaw puzzles for scientists.”
― Claire King, The Night Rainbow

9 likes

“A blown kiss is not a proper kiss. Hugs and kisses should be hugs and kisses, not breaths of air. I am tired of breaths of air and not enough hugs and kisses.”
― Claire King, The Night Rainbow

tags: children, hugs, kisses, pea

9 likes

“I make the surprised O with my mouth, although I am not really that surprised. It was the kind of story that grownups tell children to complicate a thing when they could just tell you the thing itself, much faster.”
― Claire King, The Night Rainbow

8 likes

See all Claire King's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Fiction Fanatics: January Extra Challenge 2014	30	75	Feb 02, 2014 06:49AM
Fiction Fanatics: April POINTS Challenge	87	79	May 29, 2014 04:27PM
All About Books: Shirley's reads of 2014	64	105	Nov 30, 2014 01:53AM
All About Books: What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations & reviews	12686	1769	Oct 16, 2017 08:33AM
A Million More Pages: April Showers	99	147	Apr 22, 2018 07:29AM
Game Night: April Challenge of the Month: Mouse Trap!	87	114	May 03, 2018 10:40AM
A Million More Pages: Villains	164	196	Jun 03, 2018 11:48PM

More…

Claire’s Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45234 likes

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

4999 likes

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

5120 likes

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

2595 likes

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton