Cooper, Clare
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1935- ) UK author – not to be confused with the US writer Brenda Cooper – almost exclusively of novels for Young Adult readers, beginning with David's Ghost (1980). Of her tales of genre interest, the Simon Jones sequence, beginning with The Black Horn (1981), is fantasy; Earthchange (1985) describes a Ruined Earth and the attempts of its young cast to build a new life; Ashar of Qarius (1988) pits its slightly saccharine child protagonists against an Alien on a planet from which their parents have mysteriously vanished. Her later works continue in the same modestly rewarding vein. [JC]
Brenda Clare Cooper
born Falmouth, Cornwall: 21 January 1935
works
series
Simon Jones
- The Black Horn (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981) [Simon Jones: hb/]
- A Wizard Called Jones (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984) [Simon Jones: hb/]
- The Kings of the Mountains (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986) [Simon Jones: hb/]
individual titles
- David's Ghost (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980) [hb/]
- Andrew and the Gargoyle (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983) [hb/]
- Earthchange (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985) [hb/Jeremy Ford]
- The Settlement on Planet B (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987) [hb/]
- Children of the Camps (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988) [hb/]
- Ashar of Qarius (London: Simon and Schuster, 1988) [hb/]
- The Skyrifters (London: Simon and Schuster, 1989) [hb/]
- Miracles and Rubies (Llandysul, Wales: Gomer Press, 1992) [hb/]
- Time Loft (Llandysul, Wales: Gomer Press, 1995) [hb/Suzanne Carpenter]
- Marya's Emmets (Llandysul, Wales: Pont Books, 1996) [hb/]
- Stonehead (Llandysul, Wales: Pont Books, 2000) [hb/]
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