on that experience in Dancing Through the Shadows (1997). Five of her children's adventure stories explore time slips (1997–2004). Greek mythology provides the background for the young-adult novel The Moon Riders (2002) and its sequel The Voyage of the Snake Lady (2004). Influences Tomlinson told an English Association interview that her favourite childhood books were The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and Francis Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden In adulthood she became attracted to the work of Alan Garner and Jane Gardam. Bibliography Fiction series Against the Tide trilogy The Flither Pickers (1987) The Herring Girls (1994) Beneath Burning Mountain (2001) Forestwife trilogy The Forestwife (1993) Child of the May (1998) The Path of the She Wolf (2000) Time Slip adventures Meet Me by the Steelmen (1997) The Night of the Red Devil (2000) Errand Lass (2003) Scavenger Boy (2003) Blitz Baby (2004) Troy and the Warrior Women series The Moon Riders (2002) The Voyage of the Snake Lady (2004) Novels Water Cat (1988) The Secret Place (1990) Riding the Waves (1990) Summer Witches (1991) The Rope Carrier (1991) The Cellar Lad (1995) Haunted House Blues (1996) Dancing Through the Shadows (1997) The Little Stowaway (1997) Ironstone Valley (1998) Lifeboat That Went by Land (1999) The Voyage of the Silver Bream (2001) Wolf Girl (2006) Viva Espana (2010) References External links British children's writers 1946 births Living people People from Whitby British women children's writers Alumni of Hull College of Education