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Lindsay Littleson has four grown-up children and lives in the village of Uplawmoor near Glasgow.  She was a full-time primary teacher  for many years but took early retirement in 2019 to focus on her writing. Before becoming a teacher she spent eight years as possibly the worst PAYE auditor ever to be employed by the Inland Revenue.

In 2014 she began writing for children and won the Kelpies Prize for her first children’s novel The Mixed Up Summer of Lily McLean. The sequel, The Awkward Autumn of Lily McLean, was published by Floris Books in 2017 and Guardians of the Wild Unicorns came out in  2019. Guardians of the Wild Unicorns was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for both the Stockton Children’s Book Prize and East Sussex Children’s Book Prize.  Secrets of the Last Merfolk was published by Floris in 2021.

In 2015 her WW1 novel Shell Hole was shortlisted for the Dundee Great War Children’s Book Prize and she enjoyed engaging in research so much that she was inspired to write another two historical books, A Pattern of Secrets, set in Victorian Paisley and The Titanic Detective Agency.

Her latest novels with Cranachan Books are The Rewilders, which was long listed for the 2022 SPARK! School Book Award and Euro Spies which came out in 2023. Ice Cream Boy is her latest novel. It came out with Floris Books in May 2024!

https://www.florisbooks.co.uk/book/Lindsay-Littleson/Ice+Cream+Boy/9781782508892