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I am Catherine Johnson, a novelist and screenwriter. I have written lots of books including Arctic Hero, one of the titles chosen for BOOKED UP! in 2009, as well as Stella, Landlocked and Face Value.

My latest book, A Nest of Vipers, was published in April 2008. It was on the shortlist for the Leeds Book Award, and my thank you to Ninelands School is on the news page.

I've also written for film and TV, and I was co-writer on the hugely acclaimed award winning British film Bullet Boy, directed by Saul Dibb and starring Ashley Walters

I have worked as a mentor for the British Council and Royal Literary Fund and was writer in residence in Holloway prison. I was Reader in residence at the Royal Festival Hall's Imagine Children's Literature festival and I run creative writing workshops in schools in the UK and sometimes overseas. 

I was taught to drive a horse and cart by a Truman's dray man who took me out on Bethnal Green Road on a Saturday morning with a bloody great cart horse.

Oh, and by the way, I am not the Catherine Johnson who wrote Mama Mia.