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Joanne Mich le Sylvie Harris (b. 3 July 1964, Barnsley, Yorkshire) is a British author. Born to a French mother and an English father in her grandparents' sweet shop, her family life was filled with food and folklore. Her great-grandmother was a known witch and healer.[1] All of this was an environment that would play a key role as an adult in the development of her novels.

She was educated at Wakefield Girls High School, Barnsley Sixth Form College, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where she read Modern and Medieval Languages.

Her first novel, The Evil Seed, was published in 1989, but it and a second novel published in 1993 met with only marginal success. In 1999, her whimsical though slightly dark and mystical story titled Chocolat, based on food and an exotic locale in the Gers area of France, reached No. 1 in the London Sunday Times newspaper's bestseller list. The book was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the movie rights sold to Miramax Pictures. The success of the motion picture, starring Juliette Binoche, brought Harris wide recognition in North America.

Her latest novel, Runemarks, published August 2007, is her first book for children and young adults.

Available Books by Joanne Harris

	Blueeyedboy Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385609500 ~~RRP: $49.95~~ QBD: $8.99 Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueeyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy...
	Peaches for Monsieur le Cure Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385619226 ~~RRP: $32.95~~ QBD: $22.99 Vianne Rocher is called back to Lasquenet by a letter from beyond the grave... It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in which eight years ago, she opened up a Chocolate shop. But returning to her old home, Vianne is completely unprep...
	Peaches for Monsieur le Cur Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385619219 RRP: $54.95 Vianne Rocher is called back to Lasquenet by a letter from beyond the grave... When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in which eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But returning to her old home, Vianne is completely unprepared for what she is to find there. Women veiled in blac...
	Runelight Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780857530820 RRP: $24.95 The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, twin sister to Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed, Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind... and is breaching the everyday world. A chilling prophecy from the Oracle....
	Blueeyedboy Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552773164 RRP: $19.95 Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueeyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, a...
	The Lollipop Shoes Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552773157 RRP: $19.95 'Who died?' I said. 'Or is it a secret?' 'My mother, Vianne Rocher.' Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop.Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door.The wind has stopped - at least for a while.Then into their liv...
	Sleep Pale Sister Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552771788 RRP: $19.95 Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken. Drawn by her lover, Mose, into a dangerous underworld of intrigue and blackmail, she meets Fanny Miller, the brothel-keeper, and her shadowy d...
	Holy Fools Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552770019 RRP: $19.95 Set in seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, who is forced by circumstance to abandon the travelling life and seek refuge among the sisters of the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer. Reinvented as Soeur Auguste, Juliette is able to make a new life of herself and her young ...
	Five Quarters Of The Orange Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552998833 RRP: $19.95 Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games. Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise's nephew - a profiteering...
	Chocolat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552998482 RRP: $19.95 When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as the ultimate sin. Suddenly Vianne'...

	Runemarks Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780375844454 RRP: $14.95 Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world....
	The Girl with No Shadow Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061431630 RRP: $19.95 Vianne assumes a low-profile new identity in Paris, where she opens a chocolaterie and hopes to escape the ghosts of her past before a devious new friend threatens everything she has worked for....
	Five Quarters of the Orange Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061214608 RRP: $18.95 Framboise Simon returns to the French village where she grew up as a girl during the German occupation, and relives the tragic events that surrounded her family....
	Gentlemen And Players Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060559151 RRP: $19.95 For generations, privileged young men have attended the elite St. Oswald's School for Boys, but as the new term gets under way, a number of increasingly devastating incidents occurs, including murder, leaving the unraveling school in the hands of the only person who can save it, Roy Straitley. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing....
	The French Market Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060893132 RRP: $32.95 A taste-tempting array of easy-to-prepare recipes for dishes that evoke the flavors of the French Gascony region features such traditional favorites and innovative new dishes as cassoulet, beef bourguignon, cr me caramel, wild mushroom tartlets, potato and avocado salad, and pork loin with roasted chestnuts. Original. 15,000 first printing....
	My French Kitchen Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060820947 RRP: $25.95 The author of Chocolat shares favorite recipes enjoyed by multiple generations of her family, introducing the process of French cooking with accessible instructions and lavish descriptions of the French countryside. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....
	Sleep, Pale Sister Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060787110 RRP: $18.95 Henry Chester, a puritanical and tyrannical Victorian artist, finds the perfect model in nine-year-old Effie, until, ten years later, Effie, a childlike, biddable, and sedated perfect wife, awakens as an illicit love affair draws her into a dark and dangerous world of blackmail, revenge, and intrigue. Original. 30,000 first printing....
	Holy Fools Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060559137 RRP: $18.95 Forced to abandon her life as a traveling actress and seek refuge in a seventeenth-century abbey, Juliette reinvents an identity for herself and her young daughter in the wake of political upheavals surrounding the assassination of King Henri IV, only to find her past catching up with her. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 75,000 first printing....
	My French Kitchen Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060563523 RRP: $32.95 Shares favorite recipes enjoyed by multiple generations of the Harris family, introducing the process of French cooking with accessible instructions and lavish descriptions of the French countryside....
	Coastliners Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060958015 RRP: $18.95 Returning to her hometown on a tiny French island called Le Devin, Madeleine is saddened to realize that the island's decline reflects the deterioration of her increasingly withdrawn father, and she seeks to unite the town's other lost souls to save their home. By the author of Chocolat. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing....
	Chocolat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140282030 RRP: $19.95 When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village find themselves torn between the solemn law of religion and the joyful rewards of Vianne's confections. Reprint....
	Blackberry Wine Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380815920 RRP: $16.95 The highly acclaimed author of Chocolat takes readers to the French countryside to follow a cantakerous, mysterious man as he purchases a small cottage trying to recapture the magic in his life from two decades earlier. Reprint....
	Boy in Darkness and Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780720613896 RRP: $19.95 ...
	Jigs & Reels Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060590147 RRP: $18.95 Collects twenty-two short works which take place at different times in history and in such locales as London, Paris, Brazil, and the American Old West....
	Rise of the Vampire Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780983016830 RRP: $16.95 ...
	The Girl with no Shadow Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061562693 RRP: $32.95 Vianne assumes a low-profile new identity in Paris, where she opens a chocolaterie and hopes to escape the ghosts of her past before a devious new friend threatens everything she has worked for....

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	Blackberry Wine Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552998697 Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscapes of his childhood, more enticing than the present, and to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide both the key to an old mystery and a doorway into another world. As the unusual properties of the strange brew take effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in...
	Blueeyedboy Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385609517 'Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodig...
	Chocolat Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385410649 When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as the ultimate sin. Suddenly Vianne'...
	Chocolat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552997997 When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as the ultimate sin. Suddenly Vianne's...
	Chocolat (Special Edition) Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552774246 0...
	Chocolat - Film Tie-In Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552998932 Try me . . . Test me . . . Taste me . . . When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares...
	Coastliners Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385601726 On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La Houssiniere and the impoverished village of Les Salants, have fought for control over the island's only beach and the source of its prosperity. When Mado, a spirited local girl, returns to Les Salants after a ten-year absence, she finds he...
	Coastliners Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552999496 When Grosjean's estranged daughter Mado returns to Le Devin, a tiny island caught like a crab in the shallow seas of northern France, she brings with her an air of energy and change that ruffles the crusty local fisherman. Divided squarely into two warring communities, the people from La Houssiniere on the near side and those from Les Salants on the far side, the islanders' traditional fe...
	Gentlemen & Players Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385609524 The eagerly awaited new novel set in a school where murder is about to become part of the curriculum. The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Lat...
	Gentlemen and Players Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060559144 For generations, privileged young men have attended the elite St. Oswald's School for Boys, but as the new term gets under way, a number of increasingly devastating incidents occurs, including murder, leaving the unraveling school in the hands of the only person who can save it, Roy Straitley. 75,000 first printing....
	Holy Fools Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060559120 Forced to seek refuge in a seventeenth-century abbey, Juliette creates a new identity for herself and her young daughter in the wake of political upheavals surrounding the assassination of King Henri IV....
	Holy Fools Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385603645 Set in seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, who is forced by circumstance to abandon the travelling life and seek refuge among the sisters of the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer. Reinvented as Soeur Auguste, Juliette is able to make a new life of herself and her young ...
	Jigs & Reels Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385606424 A book of short stories from the author of 'Chocolat'. Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these 22 short stories from the author of 'Holy Fools' and 'Five Quarters Of The Orange', the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with th...
	Juego de caballeros / Gentlemen & Players Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9788425341786 As the new term gets under way at the elite St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, a number of increasingly devastating incidents occurs, leaving the unraveling school in the hands of the only person who can save it, Roy Straitley....
	Runemarks Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780375844447 Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world....
	The French Market Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385608237 A mouth-watering collection of recipes inspired by fresh, seasonal French market produce. Once again Joanne Harris and Fran Warde have collaborated to write a French Cookbook with a difference. This time they have gone to Gascony for their inspiration and into the world of the French rural market. The best ingredients in season, locally produced fruit, vegetables, wines and cheeses combine to mak...
	The Girl with no Shadow Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780061431623 Vianne assumes a low-profile new identity in Paris, where she opens a chocolaterie and hopes to escape the ghosts of her past before a devious new friend threatens everything she has worked for....
	The Lollipop Shoes Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385609487 Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre Vianne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop.Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door.The wind has stopped - at least for a while.Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins to change...

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