Paver, Michelle

Michelle Payver was born in Africa , in Malawi . Her mother was Belgian, and her father was a South African who published The Nyasaland Times . The writer's childhood passed in Wimbledon, in northwest London. Michelle graduated from Lady Margaret Hall College of Oxford University , where she studied biochemistry . Then Payver became a co-founder of a law firm. In 1996, Father Payver died. To recover from his death, Michelle took a long creative vacation and traveled throughout France and America for a year. At the same time, she wrote her first novel Without Charity . After returning, Payver left legal practice and focused entirely on writing. ^[five]

In 2003, Michelle Payver began work on a series of books, The Chronicles of Dark Times . The idea of ​​the novel arose from the writer as a child.

As a child, Payver was fascinated by the history and myths of the primitive world. She read a lot with enthusiasm. Mostly these were books about animals. Michelle's special passion was wolves . So in the "Chronicles of Dark Times" the wolf became one of the main characters of history.

In 2004, the first novel of the series “Chronicles of Dark Times” was published - “Brother Wolf” ^[6] about the adventures of the boy Thorak and the wolf cub in the post-glacial period, 6000 years ago. The novel is translated into 33 languages ​​(including Russian).

Collecting materials for the series, Payver lived for a long time in the forests at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains , in Romania , she also visited Finland and Greenland to penetrate deeper into the customs and spiritual world of the northern peoples.

Over the next five years, Paver wrote five more novels: Heart of the Wolf , Soul Eater , Exile, Oathbreaker, and Ghost Hunter. The Chronicles of Dark Times was a resounding success and sold out over 1 million copies in the UK alone. ^[7]

• Without Charity (2000)
• A Place in the Hills (2001)
• Daughters of eden trilogy

  The Shadow Catcher (2003)

  Fever Hill (2004)

  The Serpent's Tooth (2005)

• Chronicles of Dark Times

  Brother Wolf ( 2004)

  Heart of the Wolf (Spirit walker) , 2005

  Soul Eater , 2006

  The Outcast ([Outcast) , 2007

  Oathbreaker (Oath Breaker) , 2008

  Ghost Hunter , 2009

• Dark Matter (2010)

• Official site of the writer
• The Chronicles of the Dark Ages
• "Chronicles of Dark Times" in Russia (Russian)