Adele Parks
Adele Parks | |
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Born | Teesside, England |
Occupation | Author |
Website | www.adeleparks.com |
Adele Parks is an English women's fiction author.
Biography[]
Parks was born in Teesside and studied English at the University of Leicester. She has sold over 3.5 million UK edition copies of her novels[1] and her books have been translated into over 26 languages. Every one of her 18 novels has been a bestseller in the UK.
She was a judge of the Costa Book Awards in 2010 and has regularly been the judge of the Costa Short Story Awards. In 2009 she was awarded an honorary doctorate, a Doctor of Letters, by Teesside University. Her Quick Read book, "Happy Families" won the Learners’ Favourite Award. She is an ambassador for literacy charity The Reading Agency and a Patron of the National Literacy Trust. She is also a Patron of The Guildford Book Festival.
Lies, Lies, Lies was shortlisted for the 2020 Fiction Book of the Year in the British Book Awards.[2]
Works[]
- Playing Away (2000)
- Game Over (2001)
- Larger Than Life (2002)
- The Other Woman's Shoes (2003)
- Still Thinking of You (2004)
- Husbands (2005)
- Young Wives' Tales (2007)
- Happy Families (2008)
- Tell Me Something (2009)
- Love Lies (2009)
- Men I've Loved Before (2010)
- About Last Night (2011)
- Whatever It Takes (2012)
- The State We're In (2013)
- Spare Brides (2014)
- If You Go Away (2015)
- Love Is a Journey (2016)
- The Stranger in My Home (2016)
- Lies lies lies" (2016)
- The Image of You (2017)
- I Invited Her In (2018)
- Lies Lies Lies (2019)
- Just My Luck (2020)
References[]
- ^ "Adele Parks: Publicity". Archived from the original on 1 March 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- ^ "British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
External links[]
- 21st-century English novelists
- Alumni of the University of Leicester
- Living people
- 1969 births