Ann Kelley

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Ann Kelley


Born
December 17, 1941

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Ann Kelley is the author of The Burying Beetle (shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award) and The Bower Bird (Winner of the Costa Children’s Book of the Year Award). She has also published two poetry collections, The Poetry Remedy (1999) and Paper Whites (2001). She has won several prizes for her poems and has run courses for aspiring poets from her home. She is an honorary teaching fellow at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter and Plymouth. Her collected photographic works are Born and Bred (1988) and Sea Front (2005).

Average rating: 3.76 · 995 ratings · 170 reviews · 23 distinct worksSimilar authors
Lost Girls

3.44 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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The Bower Bird

3.63 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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Runners

3.31 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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The Burying Beetle (1) (Gus...

3.71 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Inchworm

3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Last Days in Eden

2.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Runners by Ann Kelley (30-S...

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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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The Light at St Ives

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
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On a Night of Snow

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014
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The Burying Beetle (1) The Bower Bird Inchworm A Snail's Broken Shell (4)
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“Death: I know, or I think I know that death will only be nothingness, but I don’t want oblivion yet. I want to smell honeysuckle in the dark, I want to hear my cat greet me with her special purring. I want to smell old books”
Ann Kelley, The Bower Bird

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