Colfer, who is 39, lives in Wexford, a seaside town in the south-east of Ireland, with his wife Jackie and their sons Finn and Sean. His first novel, Benny and Omar was an instant bestseller in Ireland and even knocked Harry Potter off the number-one slot for bestselling children’s books. Like Artemis Fowl, it was written after a day’s teaching and after his young son’s bedtime.
Total UK sales of Eoin’s Artemis Fowl titles now exceed a staggering one million copies in the UK and Ireland alone. Eoin Colfer has achieved huge international critical acclaim in the media and the book trade. He is a brand new entrant in Who’s Who 2005 and his work has been chosen as a specialist subject on Junior Mastermind 2005. Eoin won a Herald Angel award at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2004 for his performance at the book festival. Awarded by festival sponsors for outstanding performances throughout all the arts, Eoin Colfer was the first author to ever win a Herald Angel award. In an article in the Glasgow Herald, Keith Bruce comments: ‘J K Rowling may have stolen the column inches last weekend, but Colfer has an altogether more active approach to book-festival appearances with a stand-up comic routine full of inspired characterisations.’
Artemis Fowl won the WHSmith ‘People’s choice’ Children’s Book of the Year Award 2002, The Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year 2001 and The Blue Peter Book Award 2002. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident was shortlisted for the Red House Children’s Book Award 2002.
Puffin publish Fairies with Attitude
ARTEMIS FOWL
The book by number one bestselling Irish author Eoin Colfer cast a spell on the book world when it was published in 2001. Described as ‘DIE HARD with fairies’, ARTEMIS FOWL is Colfer’s fantastically original novel combining leprechauns and technology of the highest order. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren’t the fairies of bedtime stories.
After the massive worldwide success of ARTEMIS FOWL came the equally stunning sequel, ARTEMIS FOWL THE ARCTIC INCIDENT which found old enemies Holly Short and Artemis Fowl working together for the first time. A bold and daring plan is necessary to fight the threat to the Lower Elements from the goblin B’wa Kell triad – and to rescue Artemis’s father.
In 2003 Puffin published the third breathtaking installment to chart the life and crimes of the most fiendish mastermind criminal the human race has ever produced, ARTEMIS FOWL THE ETERNITY CODE. Eoin Colfer’s razor sharp wit and wonderfully accomplished style combine with his influences from the world of film (The Matrix), animation (The Simpsons) and graphic novel (Akira) to produce fast-paced, laugh-a-minute fantasy thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat right to the very end. In ARTEMIS FOWL THE ETERNITY CODE, Artemis is plotting to do one last deal with the fairy folk but can he pull it off without endangering the entire fairy race and losing his trusty bodyguard Butler in the process? There’s only one thing for sure: Artemis Fowl is in trouble. And this time it’s serious.
In May 2005, Puffin will publish Eoin Colfer’s fourth book in the Artemis Fowl series, ARTEMIS FOWL THE OPAL DECEPTION.
THE SUPERNATURALIST
The Supernaturalist is the explosive new page-turner for readers of all ages from the internationally best-selling author, Eoin Colfer. A futuristic adventure that will appeal to fans of The Matrix and Bladerunnner, and won’t disappoint those who enjoy Eoin’s trademark humour. James Bond style technology, action-packed adventure and a cast of unforgettable characters are all pulled together with mind-boggling wit and invention.
Eoin’s razor sharp wit and wonderfully accomplished style combine with his influences from the world of film (The Matrix), animation (The Simpsons) and graphic novel (Akira) to produce fast-paced, laugh-a-minute fantasy thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat right to the very end.
In The Supernaturalist, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite . . . until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the ability to see these blue creatures, they enlist him as one of them too.
Acclaim for The Supernaturalist:
‘A dystopian thriller that reads like The Matrix crossed with Oliver Twist ‘
The Times
‘Eoin Colfer’s best book yet’ Mail on Sunday
‘A gripping page turner’ Publishing News
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Benny and Omar, 1998
Benny and Babe, 1999
Going Potty, 1999
Ed’s Funny Feet, 2000
Ed’s Bed, 2001
The Legend of Spud Murphy
Artemis Fowl, 2001
Artemis Fowl – The Arctic Incident, 2002
Artemis Fowl – The Eternity Code, 2003
The Supernaturalist.
