Welcome to the website of Rachel Ward, author of books for teenagers and young 
adults; the Numbers trilogy and The Drowning.
I love searching online and finding out about books and writers, so I thought I’d do the decent thing and give readers a peek into my world…
I hope you enjoy exploring the site. You can find out a bit about me, read about my books and what’s coming up next. You can also find out which events I’ll be visiting and how to contact me.
Stop Press:
My fourth book, The Drowning, is now out in the UK (in book form, as an ebook and audiobook) and will be published in France as ‘Reviens-moi’ at the end of May. Early reviews can be found on the lovereading4kids website. Other reviews can be found on my Books page. Here’s the official blurb: ‘When Carl opens his eyes on the banks of a cold lake, his brother is being zipped into a body bag. And a shivering wet girl is being helped nearby. What happened in the water? He can’t remember. All he knows is that he must find out – before the truth comes back to drown him …’
To mark the publication, I’ve written a series of articles which are being very kindly hosted by five lovely book bloggers to form The Drowning Blog Tour.
Numbers has won the Maidstone Area Book Award! A huge thank you to everyone who voted!
I’ve agreed to be the Patron of Reading for Pontypridd High School. We’re making plans for the coming year, and I’m so excited to be part of a great initiative to promote reading for fun in schools.
Film News: Numbers is being developed as a movie UK film company Warp. I will post up any more news as soon as I can.
More Film News: The Drowning has been optioned by Escape Artists, a US film company.