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Andy Mulligan is a British author of young adult fiction, adult fiction, radio plays, and screenplays.
After an education at Oxford, Mulligan worked as a theater director. He retrained as a teacher and began teaching English and drama in India, Brazil, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. He has written eight young adult novels and in 2019 published Train Man, his first novel for adult readers.
For Return to Ribblestrop, Mulligan won the 2011 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2012.
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TrashAndy Mulligan
Set in an unnamed developing country, Andy Mulligan's Trash (2010) is a young-adult thriller novel about three boys whose lives change when they find in the garbage a bag linked to a murder and millions of stolen dollars. With corrupt police and...
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Andy Mulligan is a British writer best known for young adult fiction. Raised in South London, he worked as a theatre director for ten years before retraining as a teacher. His teaching career took him to India, Brazil, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the UK, experiences that have strongly influenced his writing. He now divides his time between London and Manila.
Career
Mulligan's first novel, Ribblestrop, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. The story originated "on a walk with a fellow teacher"; they talked about they might turn a particular "ramshackle stately home ... into a thoroughly inappropriate school".
His second novel, Trash, is set in the garbage dump of a large unnamed third world city reminiscent of Manila, and features a street child who lives as a waste picker. It was shortlisted for one of the annual Blue Peter Book Awards, but dropped "because it contains scenes of violence and sweari
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Andy Mulligan
About Author
Andy Mulligan was brought up in the south of London. He worked as a theatre director for ten years before being made redundant in his early thirties when he left the UK to help at an orphanage in India. He then travelled extensively in Asia and later retrained as a teacher. He has taught English and drama in India, Brazil, the Philippines and the UK. He now divides his time between London and Manila.
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DOG
PUSHKIN CHILDREN'S BOOKS
OCTOBER 2017
When a child shouted out from an auditorium, "I have a dog. It thinks it is a cat!", it gave Andy Mulligan the spark of an idea that became his latest novel, DOG.
Dog is an exploration of the questions and insecurities around identity that children might face as they become teenagers. Mulligan also explores bullying as well as family relationships through the story.
In Dog, a puppy called Spider is given to a boy, Tom, who is struggling at his new secondary school - where he is being bullied - and at home, following the separation of his parents. Spider becomes Tom's focus so, when Spider gets
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