New Fiction for 2011/12

"Forsaken"

Published by Franklin Watts/Edge, November 2011.

"Books children want to read, books children can read."

A mermaid story – not pink, not sparkly – a new take on Matthew Arnold’s romantically beautiful poem ‘The Forsaken Merman’:

Here came a mortal,

But faithless was she:

She left lonely for ever

The kings of the sea…

Mara’s mother is missing, her little brother is sick, maybe dying, her father is grieving. It all seems hopeless – until Mara sets out on a life or death journey to bring her mother home.

"Visiting Nelson"

In 'After' (Datlow/Windling ed) Hyperion 2012.

A YA anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories by well-known fantasy and science fiction authors.

Hundreds of years in the future, two brothers visit the ruins of St Paul’s Cathedral in a lawless, flooded London ruled by gangs and roamed by the mysterious ‘Hairies’.

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• ‘The Shadow Hunt’ has been chosen for the United States Board on Books for Young People's Outstanding International Books 2011 , and nominated for the American Library Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011 . It received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews .

• ‘Dark Angels’ - ‘One of the very best children's books I've read for a long time’ - Books Monthly.

• ‘West of The Moon’, HarperCollins 2011, the revised Troll trilogy in one volume.

  "Spanning years and continents, and filled with brilliantly imagined characters and creatures, this is gripping, atmospheric fantasy at its best."

  "Persuasive and gripping" Independent on Sunday