The Nature of the Beast

Janni Howker (born 1957) is a British author of children's and young adult fiction, born in Nicosia, Cyprus, to a British military family, who has also written for adults and adapted her works for screen. She is best known for novels like The Nature of the Beast (Whitbread Children's Book Award 1985), Isaac Campion (Somerset Maugham Award 1987), and Badger on the Barge (shortlisted for Whitbread and Carnegie), and runs creative writing workshops across the UK while living near the Scottish border.com, Norwegian