Terry Wardle

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Terry Wardle (born 17 April 1944) is a British writer born in Hereford. Has also been a soldier, teacher, journalist and businessman. He is perhaps best known for his award-winning children's novel The Hardest Sum in the World, originally published by Andersen in the UK and Australasia in hardback [1] and by Corgi in paperback [2] in Britain, published in Spain in 1989 [3] and Italy in 1994 [4] To date it has sold around 100,000 copies in the UK, Europe and Australasia. [5] It has been in print continuously somewhere in the world for more than 20 years and is now published in the UK by MTC. [5] It was particularly popular in Italy and in 1995 he became the first non-Italian winner of the Premio Verghereto literary award, which had previously been won by many leading Italian children's authors. [6]

In 2009 he became the first writer to chronicle the history of the first pre-conquest Norman castle built in England in his book England’s First Castle, published by The History Press. [7] The book not only contained detailed original research on the castle and its builder, but a scathing critique of the failures of nineteenth- and twentieth-century historians, who had fatally confused what little information was thought to have been known about the castle.

Other books include an historical novel, The Secret of The Talisman, [8] a mystery thriller 'Shakespeare's Curse' ( ISBN   9781536927337) and local histories, The History of Barbourne, of which he was co-author, [9] a book of county biographies Heroes and Villains of Worcestershire., [10] and 'Historic Worcester Streets' published by TWP in 2014. His journalism career began at the weekly Kent Messenger . He also worked as supplements editor on the Birmingham Evening Mail and as editor on the Orpington Times and the Hereford Observer , and did a stint as a sub-editor on The Independent . In 2010 he founded the online Energy Assessor Magazine, the first and only news publication for UK energy assessors, which he ran for eight years until his retirement.

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  1. ↑ 1986, British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ref 823'.914(J) PZ7
  2. ↑ 1987, ISBN   0-552-52460-3
  3. ↑ La suma mas dificil del mundo, ediciones sm, ISBN   84-348-2573-2
  4. ↑ Il problema piu difficile del mondo, Piemme Junior, ISBN   88-384-3614-2
  5. 1 2 The Hardest Sum in the World, MTC, ISBN   978-0-9553809-2-1
  6. ↑ Corriere di Cesena Anno III/N.275, 5 Ottobre 1995, p.11
  7. ↑ ISBN   978-0-7524-4797-1
  8. ↑ 2007, MTC, ISBN   978-0-9553809-1-4
  9. ↑ 2007, MTC, ISBN   978-0-9553809-0-7
  10. ↑ 2010, The History Press
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