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 English father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher