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BUY CROWBOY, SHADOW BRINGER & THE MAP OF MARVELS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

BUY CROWBOY, SHADOW BRINGER & THE MAP OF MARVELS FROM WATERSTONES

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David Calcutt was born in United Kingdom in the town of Wednesbury in the industrial West Midlands. He has worked as a playwright, director and storyteller, has written and directed several large-scale community plays. He has also written many plays and adaptations for BBC Radio. His first plays were written for youth theatres, and several of his plays for young people are published for use in schools and colleges.

Most of his more recent plays have been written for Midland Actors Theatre, and a new play for the company “The White Shining Land” is due for production in 2010. He is also a novelist and poet. His first two novels, “Crowboy” and “Shadow Bringer” have been published by Oxford University Press, and a third novel, “The Map of Marvels”, is due for publication in May 2010. Also due for publication in October 2010 is “Robin of the Greenwood”, a collection of illustrated Robin Hood stories, with Barefoot Books

David has written and made up stories for as long as he can remember. As a boy, he liked reading comics and watching cowboy films. The two books that really fired imagination were “Treasure Island” and “Moby Dick”. Along with “Don Quixote”, they remain favourites. Mythology and folklore are another source of inspiration.