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The first in a compelling new series and yet another captivating creation from the very talented author Tim Bowler. The story combines an enormously likable and engaging central character with the harsh realities of street life and the youth gang culture that is so customary in today's news. Blade will be a fascinating new series and is predicted to be an enormous success.
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About Blade: Playing Dead
So what am I going to tell you? Not much so don't get excited. You probably want to know my name.
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Blade: Playing Dead Synopsis
So what am I going to tell you? Not much so don't get excited. You probably want to know my name.
Well, that's a bit of a problem. I got loads. But there is one name I like.
Everybody called me it in the old days. No one does now cos no one in this city knows it. And that's fine.
I don't like to remember. But I do like the name. You can use it if you want.
BLADE. From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of River Boy, Starseeker and Frozen Fire comes something completely different - the first title in a startlingly compelling new series. Contemporary, pacy, and utterly gripping, Blade takes you on a roller-coaster ride through the secret, dangerous life of its unforgettable narrator.
The mysteries and cliffhanger endings of these short, accessible books will have the power to tempt all readers as they gradually become absorbed into Blade's dangerous world.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780192754844 |
| Publication date: |
1st May 2008 |
| Author: |
Tim Bowler |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
148 pages |
| Series: |
Blade |
| Primary Genre |
Young Adult Fiction
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About Tim Bowler
Tim Bowler is the author of several prize-winning books for children,
teenagers and young adults. He has won fourteen awards, including the
Carnegie Medal, the pre-eminent UK award for Children's Literature. His
novels have been described as psychological, mystical and philosophical
adventure thrillers. He was born in Leigh-on-Sea, and studied Swedish
and Scandinavian studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich,
undertaking a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer in
1994.
His first published novel was Midget (1994), a
psychological thriller set in Leigh-on-Sea. This has been followed by
several other novels:Dragon's Rock (1995), a thriller set in Devon;
River Boy (1997), a story about love and bereavement and winner of the
Carnegie Medal; Shadows(1999), a gritty love story; Storm Catchers
(2001), a kidnap thriller; Starseeker (2002), a mystical exploration of
love, loss and music, also made into a play; Apocalypse (2004), an
allegory about the future of mankind, and Frozen Fire (2006), a
philosophical thriller about the nature of reality.
His most recent
works are Books 1 and 2 of his urban thriller series Blade (published
in March 08), and his new novel Bloodchild, a story about memory, secrets and betrayal (published September 2008).
Tim
has been described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'the master of the
psychological thriller' and by the Independent as 'one of the truly
individual voices in British teenage fiction'.
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