Smith, Gus
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of UK teacher and author John Grenfell Smith (? - ), who also writes, for children, as Gus Grenfell. He began to publish work of genre interest with "The Incorporeal Crapshooters from the Ghost Planet Kring" in Odyssey for September 1997. In Feather & Bone (2001), which is set in rural Northumberland, a spirit emanating from within the earth, and BSE (mad cow disease), are seen to be – in a sense Ecologically – linked. Woodenface (2007) as Gus Grenfell is a Fantasy for children. [JC]
John Grenfell Smith
born East Anglia
works
- Feather & Bone (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Big Engine, 2001) [pb/Deirdre Counihan]
- Woodenface (London: Usborne Publishing, 2007) as Gus Grenfell [pb/]
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