![]() ![]() ![]() Other delightful and hugely popular plots followed: Cosmic, the story of a tall teenager endlessly mistaken for an adult who goes into space – a double play on people caught between two worlds – and Framed, involving a dramatic art theft using genuine detail of the wartime storage of the National Gallery's treasures in a Welsh slate mine. That was Millions, with its appealing and ingenious plot of two young brothers who find a million pounds just before the UK converts to the euro. ![]() Not surprising, perhaps, in the household of a writer whose eye for the strange-but-true (Tycho Brahe really did have a golden nose and pet elk) won him the Carnegie Medal in 2004 with his very first effort. Drifting in and out with your nose in a book was universal. The family opted for home-schooling, not through frustration or resentment, but because everyone enjoyed it so much. He lives there today with his wife in the home where they have brought up their own seven children. ![]() From this month it is also a professorial hand, since he has been appointed professor of reading at Liverpool Hope University, the first such professorship in the UK, which will involve him teaching trainee teachers, amongst others.Ĭottrell Boyce was born in Liverpool and grew up in a large, extended, Merseyside Catholic family. ![]()
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