Nicola Morgan is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 author, best known for her novel, Mondays Are Red.

Biography

Nicola Morgan was born in a school in 1961, where her parents worked. They kept moving from school to school. Morgan's father taught English and French and her mother taught mathematics and science. Her parents taught at boys' schools and when she was eleven, Nicola was sent to boarding school. She later went to Cambridge University where she read Classics

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

 and Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

. Nicola Morgan wanted to become a writer after leaving university, but also took up a post as a teacher in a small school and taught English. Morgan also took a diploma in teaching people with reading and writing problems. Nicola also set up a website, The Child Literacy Centre, to help parents help their children with all aspects of reading. She ran this single-handedly until closing the service in 2009. In 2009 she started "Help! I Need a Publisher!", a blog

Blog

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 for writers. Morgan lives in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

with her two daughters and dog.

Writing

By 1999, Nicola Morgan had published dozens of best-selling home-learning books, while still working towards publication as a novelist. By 2010, she had published nine novels, all but one for teenagers, and five non-fiction books, including the internationally acclaimed Blame My Brain.

Fiction

• Mondays are Red (2002)
• Fleshmarket (2003)
• Sleepwalking (2004)
• The Passionflower Massacre (2005)
• Chicken Friend (2006)
• The Highwayman's Footsteps (2006)
• The Highwayman's Curse (2007)
• Deathwatch (2009)
• Wasted (2010)

Non-fiction

• Ancient Greece (2000)
• Blame My Brain (2005)
• The Leaving Home Survival Guide (2005)
• Know Your Brain (2007)
• Reality Check: Curses (2008)
• Write To Be Published (2011)
• Tweet Right - The Sensible Person's Guide To Twitter (2011)