Phil Earle on the much-loved and much-missed author of the Paul Faustino football trilogy, the Carnegie-winning Tamar and finally The Murdstone Trilogy, which was published shortly before Mal’s death earlier this year
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For many years I admired Mal Peet from afar. Not with a telescopic lens or binoculars I’ll have you know (but only because back then I didn’t know where he lived).
The closest I’d ever got to him was at a Guardian children’s fiction awards ceremony in 2009 (Mal won his book Keeper) when I positioned myself close by in the hope of working up the courage to speak to him.
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