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Firebrand: Book One in the Rebel Angels Series by Gillian Philip
FIREBRAND: BOOK ONE IN THE STUNNING NEW REBEL ANGELS SERIES.
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-19-8
£7.99
Young Adult
August 2010
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It’s the last decade of the sixteenth century: a time of religious wars in the full-mortal world. But the Sidhe are at peace, hidden behind the Veil that protects their world - until their queen, Kate NicNicven, determines to destroy it.
Seth MacGregor is the half-feral son of a Sidhe nobleman. When his father is assassinated, and Seth is exiled with his brother Conal to the full-mortal world, they vow not only to survive, but to return to reclaim their fortress and save the Veil.
But even the Veil’s power can’t protect the brothers when the brutal witch-hunts begin…
Firebrand is the first book in the Rebel Angels series by Gillian Philip, the Carnegie Medal-nominated author of ‘Crossing the Line’ and multi-award nominated ‘Bad Faith‘.
Gillian Philip & Linda Strachan longlisted for Catalyst Book Awards 2010
Strident is delighted to announce ‘Spider’ by Linda Strachan and ‘Bad Faith’ by Gillian Philip have been longlisted for the ‘2009 Catalyst Book Awards’. Congratulations to both!
Gillian Philip
Gillian Philip was born in Glasgow and has been writing all her life, starting with short but frenetic novels about Captain Scarlet and The Man From UNCLE (having massive crushes on both). She has worked as a barmaid, theatre usherette, record store assistant, radio presenter, typesetter, and political assistant to a parliamentary candidate. While living in Barbados, where her steadiest job was as a singer in an Irish bar, she took up writing professionally, and wrote many short stories for women’s magazines.
In 2001 she moved back to Scotland, and now lives in Morayshire with her husband Ian, twins Lucy and Jamie.
Books By Gillian Philip:
Bad Faith
Firebrand
Reviews of Bad Faith
Catherine Czerkawska for Vulpes Libris Website
“By any standards whatsoever, this is a mature piece of work and whatever your age, you will not be able to put it down. From the first astonishing lines: Before I slipped on the mud and fell over the Bishop, our family didn’t have a lot to do with murder. A little, but not much’, to the unbearably poignant ending, the story fairly gallops along, polished, satisfying, all the time making the reader think…
Bad Faith is a murder mystery, but much, much more. Philip paints a vivid picture of three absolutely real young people: Cass (who narrates the tale) her boyfriend Ming and her brother Griff, all living in a dystopian future. It is realised with such a deft touch, with such self consistency that the reader is transported instantly into the completely credible world of the story Philip manages to combine lyrical writing about adult themes, absolutely believable characters and real dialogue, with a breathtaking switchback of a plot, by turns funny, moving and terrifying, that will have you reading on the edge of your seat. I was torn between envy of such style, and total involvement in the world of the story
But when you start it, remember to schedule in a good chunk of your time. Bad Faith will sweep you along and have you hoping for a sequel. I finished it in the early hours and spent the following day bleary eyed, and wondering exactly what had hit me.”
M.M. for crimesquad.com
“This book is a little different for CRIMESQUAD.COM given that it was originally intended for young adults. However, this is a mystery novel and its publishers are confident the story will cross over to the adult market. In the fantasy genre there are many examples of such a crossover; JK Rowling, Phillip Pullman and Stephanie Meyer to name but three. Perhaps Ms Philip will perform the same service for crime writing?
This is, dare we say it, an important book Bad Faith is a very clever satire, written with pace and humour and wholly deserving of a wider audience. My initial concern was that I would be able to identify with a narrator who was a teenage girl. But this notion was quickly dispelled as I was quickly caught up in the sinister dystopia that is Cass’s world.
Given the weight of her topic, Ms Philip wields her ‘pen’ with a deft and surprisingly light touch. Never preaching, allowing her characters to perform their roles within her themes and bound by the confines of a tightly constructed plot. All of life is here; family secrets and delusions, a state-sanctioned serial killer called Holy Joe and a disconcerting demonstration of what might happen if fundamentalism were ever to overtake these shores.”
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Bad Faith by Gillian Philip
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-08-2
£6.99
A murderously sinister dystopian satire
Life’s easy for Cassandra. The privileged daughter of a rector, she’s been protected from the extremist gangs who enforce the One Church’s will.
Her boyfriend Ming is a bad influence, of course, with infidel parents who are constantly in trouble with the religious authorities. But Cass has no intention of letting their different backgrounds drive them apart.
Then they stumble across a corpse. What killed him? How did his body end up in their secret childhoold haunt? And is this man’s death connected to other, older murders?
As the political atmosphere grows feverish, Cass realises she and Ming face extreme danger.
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