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Eleanor Updale (born 1953) is an English fiction writer, best known for the Victorian-era London thriller Montmorency (2003) and its sequels, the Montmorency series, which feature the namesake fictional character, Montmorency . Personal life and education. Eleanor Updale was born in 1953 and grew up in Camberwell in South London.
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Montmorency series. The Montmorency series, or simply Montmorency, is a series of five young adult historical crime novels written by Eleanor Updale and first published from 2003 to 2013. It features Montmorency, an English ex-convict turned gentleman detective and spy, for whom both the first book and the series are named.
- United Kingdom
- Scholastic
Eleanor Updale studied history at St. Anne's College, Oxford, before becoming a producer of TV and radio current affairs programmes for the BBC. Her first children's novel, Montmorency , won the Silver Smarties Prize and the Medway Book Award.
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Montmorency is a crime novel and thriller set in Victorian era London, written by Eleanor Updale and published by Scholastic in 2003. It inaugurated the Montmorency series featuring a petty thief who turns gentleman and spy, namely Montmorency and his alter ego Scarper.
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- Eleanor Updale
- 2003 (hardcover)
- Scholastic
Montmorency è un libro di Eleanor Updale pubblicato da Rizzoli nella collana Narrativa Ragazzi: acquista su IBS a 7.50€!
Novelist. About. Eleanor Updale writes fiction for readers of all ages. Her Montmorency series of historical novels has been published in several languages and is currently being adapted for TV. Montmorency won the Blue Peter award for ‘The Book I Couldn’t Put Down’ and other prizes on both sides of the Atlantic.
Eleanor Updale. About the Author. ELEANOR UPDALE has been writing books since the turn of the century, including the Montmorency series, which has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. She worked in radio and television, mainly on British news programs including The World at One and Newsnight.
