Catherine Doyle

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Catherine Doyle
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Website www.catherinedoylebooks.com

Catherine Doyle (born 10 March 1990) is an Irish author of children's and young adult (YA) fiction. She has authored Sunday Times and New York Times -bestselling novels and received a number of accolades.

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Early life

Doyle spent her early childhood in Jamaica before her family returned to Ireland, where she grew up in Galway. [1] Doyle attended Dominican College in Taylors Hill. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology from NUI Galway. She later completed a Master of Arts (MA) in Literature and Publishing. [2]

Career

Doyle began her career with the Blood for Blood mafia romance trilogy, publishing her debut novel Vendetta in 2014. [3] The second and third installments in the trilogy were Inferno and Mafiosa. [4] The Blood for Blood trilogy was later re-published by Simon & Schuster. [5]

Via a five-way auction in 2017, Bloomsbury Children's Books acquired the rights to publish Doyle's middle-grade novel The Storm Keeper's Island in 2018. [6] [7] The Storm Keeper's Island won a Books Are My Bag Readers' Award in the Middle Grade category and an Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Award in the Children's category. In 2019, Bloomsbury acquired two further novels in the series: The Lost Tide Warriors (2019) and The Storm Keepers' Battle (2021). [8] The first two books were both shortlisted for an Irish Book Award in the Children's category.

At the start of 2020, Puffin Books acquired the rights to publish a standalone novel from Doyle titled The Miracle on Ebenezer Street for Christmas later that year. [9] The Miracle on Ebenezer Street was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.

Announced at the end of 2020, Electric Monkey (a Farshore Books and HarperCollins UK imprint) acquired the rights to publish Twin Crowns, a collaboration between Doyle and Katherine Webber and the start of a fantasy series in 2022. [10] [11] Twin Crowns debuted on The Sunday Times bestseller list in the Children's category [12] and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize. The sequel Cursed Crowns also became a Sunday Times bestseller. [13] Doyle also wrote the standalone book The Lost Girl King. Both Twin Crowns and The Lost Girl King received Irish Book Award nominations.

Via a two-book deal in 2023, Simon & Schuster Children's Books acquired the rights to publish Doyle's YA romantasy novel The Dagger and the Flame in 2024, the first in her City of Fantome trilogy. [14] [15] The Dagger and the Flame became a New York Times bestseller [16] and was shortlisted for the 2025 YA Book Prize. Also published in 2024 was Doyle's first picture book Pirates of the Darksea via Bloomsbury. [17]

Bibliography

Blood for Blood trilogy

Storm Keeper Quartet

Twin Crowns (with Katherine Webber)

City of Fantome trilogy

Standalone novels

Picture books

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryTitleResultRef.
2018 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards Middle GradeThe Storm Keeper's IslandWon
Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the YearShortlisted [18] [19]
2019Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book AwardsChildren'sWon [20]
Irish Book AwardsChildren's Book of the YearThe Lost Tide WarriorsShortlisted
2020The Miracle on Ebenezer StreetShortlisted [21]
2022The Lost Girl KingShortlisted [22]
Teen / Young Adult Book of the YearTwin CrownsShortlisted
2023 YA Book Prize Shortlisted [23]
2024Irish Book AwardsTeen / Young Adult Book of the YearThe Dagger and the FlameShortlisted [24]
2025YA Book PrizeShortlisted [25]

References

  1. ↑ Coffey, Edel (24 March 2024). "Catherine Doyle: 'Death and loss do exist in the world of children, so I never try to shy away from them'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  2. ↑ Leonard, Sue (17 March 2015). "Beginners' pluck: Catherine Doyle". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  3. ↑ Punzet, Megan (2 November 2014). doyle/ "Vendetta by Catherine Doyle". Writing.ie. Retrieved 3 October 2024.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ↑ Kelly, Samantha. "Inferno by Catherine Doyle". An Áit Eile. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  5. ↑ Tacye (2 January 2025). "Win A Set Of Blood For Blood By Catherine Doyle". United by Pop. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Wood, Heloise (2 October 2017). "Doyle's middle-grade debut to Bloomsbury after five-way auction". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  7. ↑ Hilton, Claire. "The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle". There's a Book for That. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  8. ↑ Eyre, Charlotte (29 March 2019). "Bloomsbury snaps up final Storm Keeper novels". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  9. ↑ Wood, Heloise (17 January 2020). "Puffin signs Doyle's MG reimagining of A Christmas Carol". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  10. ↑ Chandler, Mark (11 December 2020). "Electric Monkey pre-empts romantic fantasy from Doyle and Webber". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  11. ↑ Xenos, Natalie (11 May 2022). "Book Review: Twin Crowns by Katherine Webber and Catherine Doyle". Culturefly. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  12. ↑ O'Brien, Kiera (17 May 2022). "Osman's The Man Who Died Twice hits number one". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 October 2024.(subscription required)
  13. ↑ O'Brien, Kiera (10 May 2023). "King Charles lives long at the top". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 October 2024.(subscription required)
  14. ↑ "S&S Children's seizes Doyle's 'thrilling' YA fantasy in six-figure, two-book deal". The Bookseller. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  15. ↑ Scanlon, Anne Marie (22 November 2024). "Catherine Doyle's 'romantasy' The Dagger and the Flame delivers on a grand scale". Irish Independent. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  16. ↑ "Young Adult Hardcover". The New York Times. 20 October 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Tivnan, Tom (7 March 2023). "Doyle's pirate treasure and début picture book goes for six-figures". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  18. ↑ Tasha (29 October 2018). "2018 An Post Irish Book Award Nominees". Waking Braincells. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  19. ↑ McShane, Jennifer (24 October 2019). "A wealth of Irish talent: An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 shortlist revealed". Image. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  20. ↑ "Pat Barker, Joseph Coelho and Allison Colpoys, and Catherine Doyle win the Independent Bookshop Week". The Booksellers Association. Archived from the original on 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  21. ↑ "What are the best Irish reads of 2020? The Irish Book Awards are on tonight - and you can tune in". The Journal. 24 November 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  22. ↑ "Winners of the An Post Irish Book Awards 2022". Books Ireland. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  23. ↑ Carpenter, Caroline (3 July 2023). "YA Book Prize shortlist: Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber talk about Twin Crowns". The Bookseller. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  24. ↑ "Shortlist unveiled for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2024". Library Association of Ireland. 24 October 2024. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  25. ↑ "Catherine Doyle on her YA Book Prize-shortlisted novel, The Dagger and the Flame". The Bookseller. 16 July 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
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