Catherine Doyle


Catherine Doyle is an Irish author of children's and young adult fiction. She has authored Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling novels and received a number of accolades.

Early life

Doyle spent her early childhood in Jamaica before her family returned to Ireland, where she grew up in Galway. Doyle attended Dominican College in Taylors Hill. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from NUI Galway. She later completed a Master of Arts in Literature and Publishing.

Career

Doyle began her career with the Blood for Blood mafia romance trilogy, publishing her debut novel Vendetta in 2014. The second and third installments in the trilogy were Inferno and Mafiosa. The Blood for Blood trilogy was later re-published by Simon & Schuster.
Via a five-way auction in 2017, Bloomsbury Children's Books acquired the rights to publish Doyle's middle-grade novel The Storm Keeper's Island in 2018. The Storm Keeper's Island won a Books Are My Bag Readers' Award in the Middle Grade category and an Independent Bookshop Week Book Award in the Children's category. In 2019, Bloomsbury acquired two further novels in the series: The Lost Tide Warriors and The Storm Keepers' Battle. The first two books were both shortlisted for an Irish Book Award in the Children's category.
At the start of 2020, Puffin Books acquired the rights to publish a standalone novel from Doyle titled The Miracle on Ebenezer Street for Christmas later that year. The Miracle on Ebenezer Street was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.
Announced at the end of 2020, Electric Monkey acquired the rights to publish Twin Crowns, a collaboration between Doyle and Katherine Webber and the start of a fantasy series in 2022. Twin Crowns debuted on The Sunday Times bestseller list in the Children's category and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize. The sequel Cursed Crowns also became a Sunday Times bestseller. Doyle also wrote the standalone book The Lost Girl King. Both Twin Crowns and The Lost Girl King received Irish Book Award nominations.
Via a two-book deal in 2023, Simon & Schuster Children's Books acquired the rights to publish Doyle's YA romantasy novel The Dagger and the Flame in 2024, the first in her City of Fantome trilogy. The Dagger and the Flame became a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2025 YA Book Prize. Also published in 2024 was Doyle's first picture book Pirates of the Darksea via Bloomsbury.

''Blood for Blood'' trilogy

Vendetta Inferno
  • ''Mafiosa''

''Storm Keeper Quartet''

The Storm Keeper's Island The Lost Tide Warriors
  • ''The Storm Keepers' Battle''

''Twin Crowns'' (with [Katherine Webber])

Twin Crowns Cursed Crowns Burning Crowns
  • ''King of Beasts''

''City of Fantome'' trilogy

The Dagger and the Flame
  • ''The Rebel and the Rose''

Standalone novels

The Miracle on Ebenezer Street

Picture books

  • ''Pirates of Darksea''