Eleanor Updale
Eleanor Updale is an English fiction writer, best known for the Victorian-era London thriller Montmorency and its sequels, the Montmorency series, which feature the namesake fictional character, Montmorency.Biography
Eleanor Updale was born in 1953 and grew up in Camberwell in South London. She studied history at St Anne's College, Oxford, before becoming a producer of television and radio current affairs programmes for the BBC. She studied at the new Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary College, University of London, and was awarded a PhD in History in 2007. She is also a trustee of the charity Listening Books.
The novel, Montmorency was her first book, published by Scholastic Corporation in 2003. It was quickly followed by three sequels, with a final volume published in 2013.
Updale is married to broadcaster James Naughtie. The couple have three children.Books
- Montmorency series, published by Scholastic Corporation in the U.K. and subsequently by its Orchard Books imprint in the U.S.
- *Montmorency: thief, liar, gentleman?
- * Montmorency on the Rocks: doctor, aristocrat, murderer?
- * Montmorency and the Assassins: master, criminal, spy? – "the final installment of the Montmorency trilogy"
- * Montmorency's Revenge: madman, actor, arsonist?
- * Montmorency's Return
- Itch, Scritch, Scratch, illustrated by Sarah Horne, – picture book
- Saved
- Johnny Swanson – "in 1929 England"
- The Last Minute
