The Writers of Wales Database

DOYLE, MALACHY

Cruit Island, Kincasslagh, County Donegal, Ireland
Tel: 0035374.9543781
Email: malachydoyle@gmail.com
Website: www.malachydoyle.com
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Writer for young people. From Northern Ireland, Malachy lived in Wales from 1984-2007. He worked in special needs education for ten years and won a Northern Irish Arts Council Literary Award in 1997; an English Association Award for Cow (Simon and Schuster, 2002) and a Tir na nOg award for Georgie (Bloomsbury, 2001), both in 2002; and a Nestle Silver Award for The Dancing Tiger (Simon and Schuster, 2005) in 2005. He is a Member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
The Great Hunger/Farewell to Ireland/12000 Miles from Home
(Watts, 1998)
The Great Castle of Marshmangle (Andersen Press, 1999)
Jody’s Beans (Walker Books, 1999)
The Changeling (Pont: Legends of Wales, 1999)
Well, a Crocodile Can! (Frances Lincoln, 1999)
Tales from Old Ireland (Barefoot Books, 2000)
Owen and the Mountain (Bloomsbury, 2000)
Hero, Toffer and Wallaby (Pont Readalone, 2000)
Hungry! Hungry! Hungry! (Andersen, 2000)
Georgie (Bloomsbury, 2001)
Owain a’r Mynydd (Carreg Gwalch, 2001)
Babies Likes Me! (Frances Lincoln, 2001)
The Bold Boy (Walker Books, 2001)
Sleepy Pendoodle (Walker Books, 2002)
Cow (Simon and Schuster, 2002)
Who is Jesse Flood? (Bloomsbury, 2002)
Storm Cats (Simon and Schuster, 2002)
Riley, Kylie and Smiley (Pont Readalone, 2002)
Lake of Shadows (Pont: Legends of Wales, 2002)
Antonio on the Other Side of the World, Getting Smaller (Walker Books, 2003)
Long Grey Norris (Egmont, 2003)
Ugly Great Giant (Orchard, 2003)
1,2,3 O’Leary (Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Amadans (Orchard, 2004)
Y Cawr Mawr Hyll (Cymdeithas Llyfrau Ceredigion, 2004)
Una and the Seacloak (Frances Lincoln, 2004)
Splash, Joshua, Splash! (Bloomsbury, 2004)
Teddybear Blue (Frances Lincoln, 2004)
The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales (Barefoot, 2005)
Amadans Alert (Orchard, 2005)
Big Pig (Simon and Schister, 2005)
The Dancing Tiger (Simon and Schuster, 2005)
Granny Sarah and the Last Red Kite (Pont, 2006)
Mam–gu Penrhiw a’r Barcud Coch Olaf (Gomer, 2006)
Jack the Giant-Killer (Franklin Watts, 2006)
When a Zeeder Met a Xyder (Doubleday 2006)
Albert & Sarah Jane (Qed Publishing, 2007)
The Football Ghosts (Egmont 2007)
The Hound of Ulster (A&C Black 2007)
Horse (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
Charlie is my Darling (Orchard, 2008)
Digger & Lew (Qed Publishing, 2008)
Swap (Gomer, 2008)
Ceffyl (Gomer, 2008)
Finn MacCool and the Giant’s Causeway (Franklin Watts, 2009)
Who Did It? (Picture Corgi, 2009)
Big People, Little People (A & C Black Publishers, 2009)
Danny, The Duck With No Quack (QED Publishing 2009)
Jack and the Jungle (A&C Black 2009)
The Lambton Curse (Barrington Stoke 2010)
Bluebird and Coyote (Franklin Watts 2010)
Brer Rabbit and the Well (Franklin Watts 2010)
Too Many Webs for Anansi (Franklin Watts 2010)
My Dad's a Balloon (Franklin Watts 2010)
Spooky Soccer (Egmont 2010)
Hen's Cake (Simon and Schuster 2011)
The Jaws of Death (Barrington Stoke 2011)