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Nicholas Dane by Melvin Burgess

Nicholas Dane

Melvin Burgess


'new gen' fiction for teens   
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Carnegie-prize winning author, Melvin Burgess, has written a long-awaited new novel.  This compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s care home is a powerful study of a particularly highly charged and distressing subject and one that is frighteningly topical now 30 years later.  Handled with great sensitivity and engrossing narrative drive, Nicholas Dane is an important addition to the understanding of how teenage lives can go so wrong.



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Nicholas Dane by Melvin Burgess

When Nick's mother dies suddenly, the 14 year old is sent straight into a boys' home, where he finds institutional intimidation and violence keep order. Nick thinks life can't get any worse - but the professionally respected deputy head, Mr Creal, who has been grooming him with sweets and solace, has something much more sinister in mind.


About the Author

Melvin Burgess

Melvin Burgess was born in Sussex in 1954. He did poorly at school and after a short period training as a journalist had a number of odd jobs and was unemployed for much of the time. His first book, The Cry of ther Wolf, was published in 1990, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He has since won the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Ficiton Award for his controversial novel, Junk, The Lancashire Chidlren's Book Award for Bloodtide and the LA Times Best Young Adult Book of the Year award for Doing It. His work has been widely adapted for stage and TV, and he has built up a reputation for controversial, hard-hitting books dealing with themes ranging from sex and drugs to adaptions of Norse mythology. Melvin lives and works in Manchester with his two children, Oliver and Pearl.


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Format
Hardback
416 pages
Interest Age: from 12
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Author
Melvin Burgess

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Publisher
Andersen Press Ltd

Publication date
4th June 2009

Categories
'new gen' fiction for teens


ISBN
9781842701812
 


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