Piers Torday (born 1974) is a British children's writer. The son of the novelist Paul Torday, he was born in Northumberland and was a theatre and television producer for many years.[1][2]

His book The Dark Wild (2014) won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2014.[3] After Torday's father died, leaving an unfinished novel manuscript The Death of An Owl, Torday completed the novel.[1]

Torday's adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was performed at Wilton's Music Hall between 1 December 2017 and 6 January 2018[4] and revived at the same venue between 30 November 2018 and 5 January 2019[5]

Works

• The Lost Magician, 2019
• The Frozen Sea, 2019
• The Last Wild, 2013
• The Dark Wild, 2014
• The Wild Beyond, 2015
• There May Be a Castle, 2016

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