Siobhan Dowd (1960-2007) was an English author of children’s and young adult novels. She was born in London to Irish parents. Siobhan earned her B.A. Honours degree in Classics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, and her M.A. with distinction from Greenwich University in Gender and Ethnic Studies. She was a member of International PEN as a researcher and then as a program director. Siobhan established the Siobhan Dowd Trust in order to help disadvantaged children with their reading skills. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2004, but still continued to write. She passed away almost three years later in August 2007, survived by her husband, Geoff.

Siobhan Dowd’s first book was the anthology This Prison Where I Live, published in 1996. Her first novel was the 2006 novel A Swift Pure Cry. Below is a list of Siobhan Dowd’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of London Eye Mysteries Books

The London Eye Mystery (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Guggenheim Mystery (By: Robin Stevens) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

A Swift Pure Cry (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ransom of Dond (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

The Pavee and the Buffer Girl (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Dramascripts Books

Werewolf (By: Adrian Flynn) (1642)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Valley of Fear (By: Adrian Flynn) (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All My Sons (By: Arthur Miller) (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Salesman (By: Arthur Miller) (1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crucible (By: Arthur Miller) (1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A View from the Bridge (By: Arthur Miller) (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brother in the Land (By: Robert Swindells) (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Across the Barricades (By: Joan Lingard) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Question of Courage (By: Brian Keaney,Marjorie Darke) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Paper Tigers (By: Steve Skidmore,Steve Barlow) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (By: Gene Kemp) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hot Cakes (By: Adrian Flynn) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Burston School Strike (By: Roy Nevitt) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Tale of Two Cities (By: Steve Skidmore) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jane Eyre (By: Steve Skidmore,Steve Barlow) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Labyrinth: Play (By: David Calcutt) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Working Parts (By: Nick Jones) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dracula (By: David Calcutt) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Canterbury Tales (By: Martin Riley) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Deamon Headmaster (By: Nick Stafford) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (By: Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Johnny and the Dead (By: Terry Pratchett) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frankenstein (By: Philip Pullman) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lady Macbeth (By: David Calcutt) (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Snake-Stone (By: Berlie Doherty) (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Doctor Faustus (By: Geraldine McCaughrean) (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Troy 24 (By: David Calcutt) (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The White Rose and the Swatiska (By: Adrian Flynn) (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Salem (By: David Calcutt) (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Three Musketeers (By: Ken Ludwig) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cry, the Beloved Country (By: Roy Sargeant) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bog Child (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Solace of the Road (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (By: Adrian Flynn) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
King of Shadows (By: Susan Cooper) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Invisible Man (By: Adrian Flynn) (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Garbage King (By: Oladipo Agboluaje) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil Walks (By: Anne Fine) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Christmas Carol (By: Conor McReynolds,Richard Kidd) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Our Day Out (By: Willy Russell) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blood Brothers (By: Willy Russell) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flesh and Blood (By: Benjamin Hulme-Cross) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dodger (By: Stephen Briggs) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty (By: David Calcutt) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stone Cold (By: Robert Swindells) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beowulf (By: David Calcutt) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Homer's Odyssey (By: David Calcutt) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arson About (By: Mark Wheeller) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Treasure Island (By: David Calcutt) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Unman Wittering and Zigo (By: Giles Cooper) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Diary of Anne Frank (By: Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hound of the Baskervill (By: John O'Connor) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror (By: Philip Pullman) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (By: David Calcutt) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cowgirl (By: G.R. Gemin) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Brotherhood of Smoke (By: Adrian Flynn) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

This Prison Where I Live(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Glimmer Train Stories #39(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Glimmer Train Stories, #60(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: The Guggenheim Mystery was written with Robin Stevens. The Roads of the Roma was edited with Ian Hancock and Rajko Djuric.

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Siobhan Dowd Synopsis: A Swift Pure Cry is a standalone novel by Siobhan Dowd. After Shell’s mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to look after her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her new spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, who is charming, eloquent, and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune Stateside, Shell finds herself pregnant and the center of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. The lives of those immediately around her will never be the same again.

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