Leonie Agnew is the winner of the Storylines Tessa Duder Award in 2022.
Leonie’s YA manuscript, The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp, will be released in 2022 and will be published by Walker Books Australia.
All about Leonie
Leonie is reported to be an award-winning children's author, a former advertising copywriter, and currently moonlighting as a primary school teacher. Witnesses claim her defining characteristic is a tendency to make things up. This is called lying, unless you write it down. Then it is pleasantly referred to as being an author.
The Memory Thief
The new book by award-winning author, Leonie Agnew.
A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in this magical, spine-tingling tale for ages 9+.
The Memory Thief is available now in your local book shop.
Books
Website illustrations by Brunelle Dias
What critics are saying about The Memory Thief
“Following her last spellbinding tale The Impossible Boy, Leonie Agnew has created another spine-tingling adventure novel for middle-grade readers.”
“In taking the fantastical world and integrating it so seamlessly into the material, Agnew’s The Memory Thief solidifies her position as a writer of note in New Zealand.”
