I have led a typical second-generation Irish life, spending most of my childhood shuttling backwards and forwards between London and Blarney, Co Cork, where my mother comes from. My father is a Scottish protestant, which starts some really good fights in their home.

After graduating from Brunel University, I moved to Dublin where I worked in IT journalism, first as a senior reporter and then as publisher and editor of the ezine IT MONDAY. After ten years in this field I was feeling a little burned out and bored – I had always wanted to be a writer and I had a feeling that I had to just do it. It was now or never! So I moved to Bath, and enrolled in the Masters course in Creative Writing for Young People at the University. and soon after graduating in 2010, I was offered a contract by Quercus for my trilogy, which draws on Irish mythology and faerie tales. The first novel, THE FERAL CHILD is out now, with the second book, THE UNICORN HUNTER to be released January 31.

Apart from writing, my other passion is horses, which I shares with my two young daughters. We own Charlie Brown, a 10-year-old Dartmoor x, and Robbie, a Highland pony.

MULBERRY, the first book in a new series written by me for younger readers will be published in July 2013 by OUP. The series focuses on the adventures of ponies and their riders at a local riding stable.

Books by Che Golden

Feral Child

by Che Golden - Children's, Fantasy