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posted on 27 Apr 2011
Deliverance
posted on 10 Feb 2011
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Win a unique, personalised e-copy of Krispy Whispers with an extra unpublished story

Just tweet #krispywhispers to get a chance to win your free, personalised copy. Only one copy is going out there - this will be a story just for you ...
Posted on 05 Jun 2013 by Melvin

Krisper Whispers - stories to snack on.

Some of these stories began as an experiment on Twitter. It was such fun, I've done a whole load of them, Here they are, illustrated and polished up. Fiction on the move! - hope you like them.
 
A night on the tiles that brings God to his knees. A pet that becomes more than just a companion. An identity theft of epic proportions. A glimpse into what makes Satan wake up screaming in the night and a woman who discovers that her babies are not entirely human.

Humorous, thought-provoking and quietly disturbing, Krispy
Whispers
is a collection of five illustrated short stories that discover the surreal within the banal. They'll fill your day with disquiet - and all for less than a Sunday paper.

Krispy Whispers Volume I is scheduled for release on
10th June and is retailing on Kindle for £1.53/$2.99.




Please like or share the Krispy Whispers fb page and help spread the word.
Posted on 26 May 2013 by Melvin

The Hit

How would you spend your final days if you only one week to live - the best week of your life? That's what Death can do for you. If you have the courage to take it.

The Hit. Available in all good bookshops and online.




The streets are buzzing with talk of Death - a hijacked euthanasia drug, which offers those that take it the best week of their lives before they die seven days later. Adam's brother is gone, his parents are worn out and he has even lost girlfriend Lizzie, the one good thing in his life. With few opportunities available to him, and the growing sense that his life is worthless, Adam decides to take Death and end it all with the ultimate high. But all too quickly, he realises that he still has plenty to live for.

Brutal, uncompromising and unflinching in its honesty, The Hit tackles some of the most important issues facing young people today head on. Set in an urban Manchester torn apart by riots, looting and unrest, this is an intense, dynamic and action-packed thriller that moves forward at a breathless pace, right up to its dramatic conclusion. Hard-hitting and enormously thought-provoking, Burgess has served up another must-read novel for young adults.

... thanks to the Booktrust for the great copy! How nice when you can lift a review straight from the site to describe your book!
Posted on 05 Apr 2013 by Melvin

An Angel for May

Here's the brand new, Andersen edition of An Angel for May. Carnegie shortlisted, it was inspired by an old bag lady I saw barefoot in the sleet one day in Hackney. One day, I thought, she had had been a little girl. Maybe she'd been happy then.

She looked so sad, I wondered what terrible things had happened to make her like that.

If you could go back in time, you could find her and save her from whatever had made her so sad and unable to cope. What a thing that would be - to give someone their whole life back.

When Tam meets a stray dog up on the moors, he doesn't know that she is there to help him to save someone she loves ...






Posted on 07 Feb 2013 by Melvin

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12 Jun 2013
Krispy review
First review for Krispy Whispers here at the Bookbag.I think they got it spot it ...
09 Apr 2013
The Hit - blog tour
08 Apr 2013
Desert Island Books
Read my Desert Island Books on welovethisbook.com
05 Apr 2013
The Hit - Booktrust
Read the full review of The Hit from The Booktrust here.
17 Apr 2012
Review of KAE
Great review of KAE in Lovereadingforkids.co.uk, by Julia Eccleshare.
13 Mar 2012
Edinburgh Writer's Conference - I'll be in it.

Edinburgh festival to recreate books world-changing event of 1962

The Edinburgh World Writers' Conference this summer will reinvent the massively influential writers' summit for a global audience

13 Feb 2012
Hammer Horror
My next book out next spring - Hunger, with Hammer Horror.
01 Feb 2012
Burning Issy
Great review for Burning Issy from The Bookbag.
13 Jan 2012
School visit reviews
Some wonderful reviews from children in Hackney, for last year's visits for "The Cry of the Wolf," and Burning Issy." Makes me very happy!
06 Oct 2011
The Cry of the Wolf - reissued
Andsersen Press are re-issuing my early titles with great new covers. I'm so pleased with this - Check it out!


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