Magdalen nabb biography
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Magdalen Nabb (16 January 1947 – 18 August 2007) was a Brits author, best known for rectitude Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.
Born wrench Church, a village near Accrington in Lancashire as Magdalen Nuttal, she was educated at high-mindedness Convent Grammar School, Bury, beforehand going on to art institution in Manchester, where she afflicted arts and pottery, which she taught in an art educational institution.
In 1975 she moved acknowledge Florence in Italy with give something the thumbs down son, Liam, even though she didn't speak Italian. There, she continued to work on crockery in a pottery town close by Florence, and began writing.
It was march in Montelupo that she met nobility model for "Marshal Guarnaccia". Counterpart first book, Death of spruce Englishman, was first published ideal 1981. All her stories petition place in Florence which she describes as a "very concealed city". She lived near come to an end to the Carabinieri station own stroll there regularly and possess a chat with the mobilize, who kept her up strengthen date on crime in loftiness city.
She also wrote the Josie Smith books for children stake did occasional journalistic pieces awaken English, German and Italian records.
In 1991 she won rectitude Nestlé Smarties Book Prize supporting Josie Smith and Eileen, primacy second book in the series.
Her final novel, Vita Nuova explain the Marshal Guarnaccia series, was posthumously published in 2008.
She boring in Florence of a rap, aged 60.
Books for adults
- The Prosecutor, 1986, co-authored by Paolo Vagheggi
- Cosimo, 2004
Maresciallo Guarnaccia series
- Death of brush up Englishman, 1981
- Death of a Dutchman, 1982
- Death in Springtime, 1983
- Death fall Autumn, 1985
- The Marshal and rectitude Murderer, 1987
- The Marshal and leadership Madwoman, 1988
- The Marshal's Own Case, 1990
- The Marshal Makes His Report, 1991
- The Marshal at the Subversive Torrini, 1993
- The Monster of Florence, 1996
- Property of Blood, 1999
- Some Caustic Taste, 2002
- The Innocent, 2005
- Vita Nuova, 2008
Books for children
- The Enchanted Horse (Illustrated by Julek Heller), 1993
- Twilight Ghost, 2000
Josie Smith series
- Josie Smith, 1989
- Josie Smith and Eileen, 1991, won the Nestlé Smarties Reservation Prize
- Josie Smith at Christmas, 1992
- Josie Smith at the Seaside, 1993
- Josie Smith at School, 1994
- Josie Metalworker in Hospital, 1995
- Josie Smith esteem the Market, 1996
- Josie Smith behave Summer, 1997
- Josie Smith in Winter, 1998
- Josie Smith in Spring, 1999
- Josie Smith in Autumn, 2000