Catherine Charley writes non-fiction books for children. Her topics range from tales of tombs and treasure to stories of polar explorers and Everest adventurers. She has also written on art history and on life in modern China. Her titles include WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT ART and EXTREME EXPEDITIONS and a book for Scholastic’s Double Take series entitled SOUTH POLE.

One of Catherine’s great passions is travel. She has travelled in a large number of countries ranging from Peru to the Yemen and from Bulgaria to the Philippines. Her experiences have included spending two years living and working in China, based at a university in Beijing where she taught English and History.

She is a qualified teacher and enjoys visiting schools to talk about her books and how she goes about writing them. She has run workshops in schools and has worked alongside class teachers to help pupils produce their own books.

Catherine studied History at Edinburgh University and during her varied career since then has also worked in television, radio, marketing and public relations. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Society of Authors. When not travelling she lives in a cottage in Northern Ireland with her husband, Peter.

This is the story of two men - deadly rivals who have never met. Both are determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole, but can they survive the extreme conditions of the wind-blasted, ice continent of Antarctica? Each faces the challenge in a different way, but the final glory will only go to one man.
Robert Scott is an officer in the British Navy and has already led an expedition to Antarctica. This time he plans to reach the South Pole, but will his men have the strength to haul the heavy supply sledges?
Roald Amundsen was beaten in his quest to be the first to reach the North Pole. Now the Norwegian is determined to conquer the South Pole before Scott. His plan is to use a crack team of cross-country skiers, dog-drivers and huskies.
There are always two sides to every story...