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Joanne Harris

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Born

in Barnsley, The United Kingdom

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http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Mythology & Fantasy

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Joanne Harris is also known as Joanne M. Harris

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television.
In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.
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Average rating: 3.87 · 324,137 ratings · 24,664 reviews · 95 distinct works • Similar authors

	Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 127,282 ratings — published 1999 — 239 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Quarters of the Orange 3.87 avg rating — 37,363 ratings — published 2001 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl with No Shadow (Chocolat, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 19,552 ratings — published 2007 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gentlemen and Players (Malbry, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 18,408 ratings — published 2005 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackberry Wine 3.83 avg rating — 16,183 ratings — published 2000 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peaches for Father Francis (Chocolat, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 13,489 ratings — published 2012 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat, #4) 4.05 avg rating — 9,254 ratings — published 2019 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runemarks (Runemarks, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 8,774 ratings — published 2007 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coastliners 3.52 avg rating — 9,129 ratings — published 2002 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holy Fools 3.60 avg rating — 8,857 ratings — published 2003 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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BROKEN LIGHT

Imagine if Carrie White had suppressed her paranormal ability.
Imagine she had a normal life - a husband, a son, a house, a job in her local bookshop - not an especially happy life, but hey, you can't have everything.
Now imagine her powers emerged, not with puberty, but with MENOPAUSE....

That's it. That's my book. BROKEN LIGHT, coming out May '23.

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“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat

tags: alive, bittersweet, chocolate, happiness, heart, simplicity, torture

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“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
― Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange

tags: acceptance, home

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“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
― Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow

tags: children, hurt, knives, mother

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The Perfume Collector

by Kathleen Tessaro

21 votes 30.4%

Atonement

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15 votes 21.7%

The Bronze Horseman

by Paullina Simons

13 votes 18.8%

The Next Always

by Nora Roberts

12 votes 17.4%

Chocolat

by Joanne Harris

8 votes 11.6%

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

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“Rumpole, you must move with the times."

"If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.”
― John Mortimer, The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole

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“lIf someone tries to steal your watch, by all means fight them off. If someone sues you for your watch, hand it over and be glad you got away so lightly.”
― John Mortimer

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