Catherine Jinks
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008Here’s an early review from Kirkus Reviews for Catherine Jinks’ Babylonne.
A sharp-tongued protagonist enlivens a medieval tapestry stuffed with mysterious antecedents, religious persecution and gory violence, in this irresistible followup to Jinks’ beloved quartet about Pagan Kidrouk.
Babylonne, the daughter he never knew, has every reason to believe the heretical teaching that this world is [...]
Catherine Jinks: Babylonne
Monday, October 13th, 2008The fifth title in Catherine Jinks’s internationally successful Pagan series, Babylonne (titled Pagan’s Daughter in Australia) is to be published in the USA by Candlewick Press in November. Here is a good first review, from Booklist, by the respected Michael Cart:
Jinks continues her cycle of excellent historical novels.
In this fifth volume, she introduces Babylonne, [...]
Catherine Jinks live
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008More good news for Catherine Jinks with her new Young Adult novel, The Reformed Vampire Support Group, which is to be published in April/May, 2009 by Allen & Unwin in Australia, and Harcourt Children’s Books in the USA.
Further rights have now been sold to the novel, and its sequel, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group.
UK [...]
Genius Squad gets ‘gripping’ review
Friday, July 4th, 2008Readers who loved Evil Genius will find this sequel as gripping, devilish and wonderfully dark as its predecessor.
What made that first book so good was the author’s delivery of a complex, layered protagonist in the young Cadel Piggot and the world of criminal masterminds in which he lives and learns, a world he eventually [...]
Catherine Jinks: Genius Squad trailer
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Here’s the book trailer for Catherine Jinks’s Genius Squad, from her US publisher, Harcourt Children’s Books.
Women’s Weekly picks The Dark Mountain as Great Read
Monday, June 2nd, 2008The Dark Mountain by Catherine Jinks, is the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Catherine Jinks’s new novel for adults is published by Allen & Unwin this month.
Catherine Jinks: The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Friday, May 9th, 2008From USA Publisher’s Marketplace:
Children’s: Young Adult
Author of Evil Genius and Genius Squad Catherine Jinks’s The Reformed Vampire Support Group, an irreverent look at the blood-sucking life through the eyes of 15-year-old vampire, Nina Harrison, who’s been stuck for 51 years in a support group of hemo-addicts that has never had anything exciting happen to them [...]
Catherine Jinks: Starred review from Kirkus
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008The first US review for the second novel in Catherine Jinks’s Genius trilogy, Genius Squad is in — and its another starred review from Kirkus Reviews.
Computer prodigy Cadel’s belief that he’s escaped the clutches of his nemesis/supposed father Prosper English proves sadly mistaken in this pulse-pounding sequel to Evil Genius (2007).
Chafing under constant police surveillance [...]
Genius Squad praised by Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks (Harcourt, May)
The backstory: “It’s the most entertaining romp through sinister evil I’ve ever read,” said Kathy Dawson, associate editorial director at Harcourt Children’s Books, about Evil Genius, which she acquired in a two-book deal in early 2006. First published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2005, the book follows [...]
Catherine Jinks: The Dark Mountain
Friday, February 8th, 2008The cover of Catherine Jinks’s new novel for adults, The Dark Mountain, which will be published by Allen & Unwin in June, 2008.
The story of two fiercely strong women, mother and daughter, one determined never to explain her choices and the other equally as determined to dig deeply and unrelentingly for the truth.
Charlotte Atkinson was [...]
