Congratulations to Bali Rai, winner of this year’s North East Teenage Book Award with Killing Honour. A Highly Commended award was also made to Phil Earle for his debut novel, Being Billy. The awards were made at a special event at the Centre for Life on Friday attended by all the shortlisted authors and 200+ [...]
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London, the near future. Energy wars are flaring across the globe – oil prices have gone crazy, regular power cuts are a daily occurrence. The cruel Kossak soldiers prowl the streets, keeping the Outsiders – the poor, the disenfranchised – in check. Hunter is a Citizen: one of the privileged of society, but with his [...]
‘Honour,’ I repeated, wondering how such a small word could have caused so much trouble. When Sat’s sister, Jas, is married off into the Atwal family she changes, she’s quiet and distant. But Sat’s too busy with his own life; his girlfriend, his friends, football . . . Then Jas disappears. According to her new [...]
‘They found the fifth girl right after the snow melted …the place where he left her was winter water, crazed with ice-feathers and dusted with snow. The traces from her body were gone, the ones that said his name, but she had an extra skin of ice that protected her and she looked perfect, like [...]
An extraordinarily rich debut novel, set in India in 1947 at the time of Partition. Although the backdrop is this key event in Indian history, the novel is even more far-reaching, touching on the importance of tolerance, love and family. The main character is Bilal, a boy determined to protect his dying father from the [...]
Faces flashed before my eyes. And for every face there was a time that they had let me down. Each punch that landed was revenge, my chance to tell them I hadn’t forgotten what they did. Eight years in a care home makes Billy Finn a professional lifer. And Billy’s angry – with the system, [...]
Danny Dawson lives in the middle of the Australian outback. His older brother Jonny was killed in an accident last year but no-one ever talks about it. And now it’s time for the annual muster. The biggest event of the year on the cattle station, and a time to sort the men from the boys. [...]
