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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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Synopsis
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.
Reviews
Praise for Doing It:
Refreshingly realistic and unsentimental approach to sex.
- Time Out
Praise for Bloodtide:
Will rank along with the 20th-century classics.
- Sunday Telegraph
About the Author
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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 Fiction Award for his controversial novel, Junk, The Lancashire Children'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. He has two children, Oliver and Pearl.
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Book Info
Format
Hardback
416 pages Interest Age: from 12
Author
Melvin Burgess
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Publisher
Andersen Press Ltd
Publication
date
4th June 2009
ISBN
9781842701812
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