Prolific English children and young adult author. Had her first book published while still in high school, then studied theater at Webber-Douglas in London. Her most well-known work is the Point Crime novel Dance with Death. Others include Plague 99, After the Plague (previously "Come Lucky April"), Big Tom, Family Fan Club and Shrinking Violet, as well as the fantasy The Wizard In the Woods. Today, Ure is very popular with British female teenage readers with novels such as Shrinking Violet, Family Fan Club and Passion Flower. Ure has also translated Danish writer Sven Hassel's WWII novels to English.
Series
Books
Little Daisy
2002
Bad Alice
2003
Me dicen Sara Tomate
2000
Skinny Melon And Me
2001
See You Thursday
1982
After Thursday
1985
If It Weren't for Sebastian
1984
Pacala and Tandala and other Rumanian folk-tales
1960
Dance with Death
1995
Pick 'n' Mix
2011
Just Peachy
2013
Frankie Foster Freaks Out!
2012
The Kissing Game
2014
Family Fan Club
2000
Bossy Boots
1991
After the Plague
1992
My Sister Sam
2006
A Bottled Cherry Angel
1986
Shrinking Violet
2001
Lemonade Sky
2012
A Twist in Time
2000
Star Crazy Me
2008
Nicola Mimosa
1985
Boys Beware
2005
You Win Some, You Lose Some
1984
Gone Missing
2007
Tomorrow Is Also a Day
1989
Little Miss Perfect
2000
Pumpkin Pie
2002
Play Nimrod for Him
1990
A Dream Come True
1990
Over the Moon
2006
Ice Lolly
2010
Secret Meeting
2004
The Children Next Door
1994
The Matchmakers
1992
Fortune Cookie
2009
A Proper Little Nooryeff
1982
Hi There, Supermouse!
1984
Jam Today
1992
Is Anybody There?
2004
Love and Kisses
2009
Hunky Dory
2007
Watchers at the Shrine
1995
Star Turn
1993
Jelly Baby
2014
Rescuing Rosie
2021
The Girl in the Blue Tunic
1997
Passion Flower
2003
Fandango!
1995
Born to Dance
2017
Boys on the Brain
2002
Jo in the Middle
1990
Fat Lollipop
1991
Meet the Radish
2006
Fruit and Nutcase
2002
Just Sixteen (Orchard Black Apple Fiction 10+)
1999
Fizzypop
2010
Plague
1989
Becky Bananas
This Is Your Life!
1997
Sugar and Spice
2005
