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Books by Chris Beckett

Chris Beckett qualified as a social worker in the 1980s, and worked in the field for 18 years, first as a social worker and then as a manager, latterly as the manager of a children and families social work team. Like most social workers who qualified at that time, he started out as a 'generic' social worker, working with a range of service users including children and families, old people, and people with mental health problems and disabilities, but his predominant area of work was with children and families. He moved into academic social work in 2000, working first at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and then at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. In addition to his social work text books, he has published academic articles on a variety of topics including the use of military language in social work, the importance of realism as an ethical principle, and statistics from Sweden about child abuse, following the legal ban there on corporal punishment. His main research area, however, has been decision-making in court proceedings about children, and decision-making about children more generally. Chris has a parallel career as a writer of literary science fiction. (More information about his fiction can be found at www.chris-beckett.com.) He won the Edge Hill Short Fiction prize for his story collection, The Turing Test, and the Arthur C. Clarke award for his novel Dark Eden. He is now a full-time writer. His view is that 'academic' and 'creative' writing have more in common than might at first sight appear: in both cases the author begins with a jumble of ideas that seem to him to be in some way linked together, and attempts, in large part by a combination of intuition and trial and error, to impose some shape and structure. Chris has three adult children, and lives in Cambridge with his wife Maggie and sundry animals. Nigel Horner is Head of the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Lincoln, where he teaches social work history, theory and methods, residential child care and ageing and older people. He began working in a London Borough Children's Home in 1972, before studying Sociology at Durham University. After a period as a Community Worker, he qualified in Social Work from Glasgow University in 1980, and thereafter worked in Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Fostering and Youth Offending settings. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Higher Education Academy.
Mother of Eden By Chris Beckett
Mother of Edenby Chris Beckett
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Dark Eden By Chris Beckett
Dark Edenby Chris Beckett
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Daughter of Eden By Chris Beckett
Daughter of Edenby Chris Beckett
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America City By Chris Beckett
America Cityby Chris Beckett
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Tomorrow By Chris Beckett
Tomorrowby Chris Beckett
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Two Tribes By Chris Beckett
Two Tribesby Chris Beckett
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Daughter of Eden By Chris Beckett
Daughter of Edenby Chris Beckett
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Beneath the World, a Sea By Chris Beckett
Beneath the World, a Seaby Chris Beckett
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The Holy Machine By Chris Beckett
The Holy Machineby Chris Beckett
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Two Tribes By Chris Beckett
Two Tribesby Chris Beckett
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The Turing Test By Chris Beckett
The Turing Testby Chris Beckett
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America City By Chris Beckett
America Cityby Chris Beckett
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Child Protection By Chris Beckett
Child Protectionby Chris Beckett
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Child Protection By Chris Beckett
Child Protectionby Chris Beckett
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Spring Tide By Chris Beckett
Spring Tideby Chris Beckett
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Tomorrow By Chris Beckett
Tomorrowby Chris Beckett
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Supervision By Chris Beckett
Supervisionby Chris Beckett
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Mother of Eden By Chris Beckett
Mother of Edenby Chris Beckett
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Daughter of Eden By Chris Beckett
Daughter of Edenby Chris Beckett
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Mother of Eden By Chris Beckett
Mother of Edenby Chris Beckett
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The Peacock Cloak By Chris Beckett
The Peacock Cloakby Chris Beckett
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Ethiopia Boy By Chris Beckett
Ethiopia Boyby Chris Beckett
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The Holy Machine By Chris Beckett
The Holy Machineby Chris Beckett
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Mother of Eden By Chris Beckett
Mother of Edenby Chris Beckett
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