Chocolat: (Chocolat 1)

Joanne Harris ¿s Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is the author of many other bestselling novels, including Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Cur¿i>, both also featuring Vianne Rocher, as is her new novel The Strawberry Thief . She has also written acclaimed novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth ( Runemarks , Runelight , The Gospel of Loki ), and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers ( Gentlemen & Players , Blueeyedboy , and Different Class) . Born in Barnsley, of an En glish father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass and flute in a band first formed when she was sixteen, and works in a shed in her garden.