Tagged ‘Young Adult’
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.
Her most recent novel, Firebrand, was chosen as The Times Teenage Book of the Year, and has garnered widespread critical acclaim.
Books by Gillian Philip: Bad Faith
Firebrand: Book One in the Rebel Angels Series
Bloodstone:Book Two in the Rebel Angels Series (2011)
Linda Strachan
Linda Strachan is the author of Spider and Dead Boy Talking. Spider was the winner of the 2010 Catalyst Book Award, it was also shortlisted for Falkirk Council’s Red Book Award and the Dumfries Burgh Book Award.
Linda’s presentations feature riveting accounts of the meticulous research she carries out for her novels, including accompanying paramedics and attending training sessions at the local fire station. In keeping with her fearless nature, Linda handed over the entire launch of ‘Dead Boy Talking’ to a group of secondary school pupils.
Books by Linda Strachan: Dead Boy Talking
Spider
Janne Teller
Janne Teller is a Danish novelist of Austrian-German descent. She has lived and worked all over the world and now divides her time between Copenhagen, New York and Paris.
She has published several best-selling and award winning novels, and her literature has been widely translated.
Nothing, by Janne Teller will be published by Strident in August 2011. It has been described as; “provocative”, “challenging”, “brutal” and “gorgeously lyrical”. More information will be available soon.
Nothing is the winner of: Le Prix Libbylit 2008, and the Best Children’s Book Prize awarded by the Danish Cultural Ministry.
Books by Janne Teller: Nothing
Portrait of Janne Teller copyright: Morten Holtum Nielsen
Firebrand: Book One in the Rebel Angels Series by Gillian Philip
FIREBRAND: BOOK ONE IN THE STUNNING NEW REBEL ANGELS SERIES.
“IT BEATS TWILIGHT INTO A COCKED HAT”
Amanda Craig:The Times
“Stark and brutal with moments of heartbreaking beauty. I haven’t enjoyed a book in this genre so much since Susan Price’s The Sterkam Handshake.”
Mary Hoffman: The Guardian
“Wonderful, I wish I’d written it…” Susan Price, author of The Sterkam Handshake
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-19-8
£7.99
Young Adult
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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…
Dead Boy Talking by Linda Strachan
“A GREAT SHORT SHARP BURST OF A BOOK THAT WILL ACTUALLY TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY” The Bookette
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1905537-20-4
£6.99
Young Adult
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Josh has 25 minutes left to live.
Yesterday he stabbed his best mate and now it’s happened to him. Lying alone in a pool of blood Josh hasn’t much time to think, but there are things he can’t get out of his head.
Where is his girlfriend, Skye? What happened to his missing brother?
And how did he get involved in the gang? As his life slips away the events of the last 24 hours start to look very different…
Bad Faith by Gillian Philip
