About the books
Celia Rees is the author of seventeen books for young adults, including the award-winning Witch Child and the celebrated Pirates!. Her books have been widely reviewed to great acclaim in the trade press.
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Sovay
2008 Pre-order Sovay
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The Stone Testament
2007  Buy The Stone Testament hardback |
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The Wish House
2005 Summer, 1976: Life-changing, heartbreaking, unforgettable. Every year, Richard has taken the same holiday with his parents, in the same part of Wales, meeting up with the same people. But this summer, everything is about to change. |
Pirates!
2002, Bloomsbury The true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe & Nancy Kington, Female Pyrates. What would make two young women take to the high seas and a life of piracy? Nancy Kington is the daughter of a rich merchant, Minerva Sharpe a slave on her father’s plantation. Divided by birth and fortune, together these two find friendship and break the bounds of gender, race and social position to follow their own destiny. |
Witch Child
2000 1659. A time of fear and persecution. Mary, granddaughter of a witch, keeps a diary. It begins: I am Mary. I am a witch… She sees her grandmother hanged, is rescued by a stranger, takes ship for America and finds a place in a Puritan community there. All that befalls her, she records in her diary and as she writes, she stitches the pages inside a quilt for discovery would mean death. |
Sorceress
2002 The sequel to Witch Child. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book Award 2002 Over three hundred years separate Agnes Herne from Mary Newbury, but they are linked inextricably by more than blood. Some of Mary’s special powers have come down to Agnes and through her the rest of Mary’s remarkable story can be told. |
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Earlier titles
- Trap in Time trilogy
- City of Shadows (2002)
- A Trap in Time (2002)
- The Host Rides Out (2002)
- The Cunning Man Point Horror Unleashed) (2001)
- Truth or Dare (2000)
- Soul Taker (1998)
- H.A.U.N.T.S. series (1998)
- H Is for Haunting
- A Is for Apparition
- U Is for Unbeliever
- N Is for Nightmare
- T Is for Terror
- S Is for Shudder
This series was republished in 2002
as the Trap in Time trilogy.
- The Vanished (Point Horror Unleashed) (1997)
- Ghost Chamber (1997)
- Midnight Hour (1997)
- Blood Sinister (1996)
- Colour Her Dead (1994)
- The Bailey Game (1994)
- Every Step You Take (1993)
Short stories
Short stories by Celia appear in the following anthologies:
- Mirrors – ed. Wendy Cooling – Harper Collins Children’s Books
- Heroes & Villains – Anthology – Hodder Children’s Books
- Kids’ Night In – War Child Anthology – Charity Harper Collins Children’s Books
- Silent Night – Anthology – Scholastic Children’s Books
