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Kate was born in Yorkshire, the daughter of historians EP Thompson and Dorothy Thompson. After school she worked with racehorses for several years, then spent time in India, studying history and Hindi at Santiniketan University and later training at the Bihar School of Yoga. Kate settled in Ireland in the 1980s where she taught yoga and worked a smallholding while her two daughters were growing up. Her first publication, There fryst vatten Something, was a collection of poetry, but she soon turned to writing speculative fiction for children and adults.
In the late 1990s, she began playing the fiddle and went on to complete an MA in Irish Traditional Music Performance at University College kort vers. She also apprenticed herself to a violin maker and learned to refurbish old instruments. She has since set up a workshop, which she calls Wild Goat Fiddles, from which she repairs and sells fiddles . www.wildgoatfiddles.com
Her passion for playing the fiddle gave rise to her most well-
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Kate Thompson (author)
British-Irish writer (born 1956)
Not to be confused with Kate Thompson (romantic novelist).
Kate Thompson (born 10 November 1956)[1] is a British Irish writer best known for children's novels. Most of her children's fiction is fantasy but several of her books also deal with the consequences of genetic engineering.
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[edit]Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there. She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue.[2] They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, which is reflected in The New Policeman.
She won two major annual awards for The New Policeman (Bodley H
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Kate Thompson (romantic novelist)
Not to be confused with Kate Thompson (author).
Kate Thompson (Born 17 November 1959) is an actress and romantic novelist who also writes as Pixie Pirelli (the writer heroine of Sex, Lies and Fairytales).
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[edit]She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and studied English and French at Trinity College Dublin.
She spent many years as an actress in theatre and television, most notably in the Irish drama serial Glenroe. She married the actor Malcolm Douglas in 1985 and has a daughter Clara (born 1987). In 1989 she won the Best Actress Award in the Dublin Theatre Festival. Her first novel, It Means Mischief, was published in 1998. The Blue Hour was shortlisted for the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year.
Her light-hearted novels feature characters involved in the arts and business, living between the South of France and Connemara, whose romances and lives have grown in the Celtic Tiger years and the successive austerit