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If you’re on the hunt for a book that will really grab you,
put shivers down your spine and ensure that at the end of every chapter you
gasp for breath then Bowler’s Bloodchild is the novel for you. Incredibly
atmospheric of time and place with characters that draw you in, Bowler is the
true master of the teenage psychological thriller and a wonderfully individual
voice to boot.
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Bloodchild Synopsis
Will lies in a deserted lane. All he knows is that he's had an accident and that
his life is slipping away. Against all the odds he survives - but with an almost
total loss of memory.
He does not even know himself. And that is not all.
At night he is tormented by visions, in the daytime by hostile
strangers.
Why does he have so many enemies? And who is the strange child
who seems to have a story to tell him? Something has happened in this town,
something terrifying. Will can sense it but he can't work out what it was.
Perhaps the old Will knew.
But that was before the accident. The new Will
must search for the answers again - and this is a dangerous task. For the town
has a secret and there are those who will do everything in their power to
preserve it.
Even kill.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780192728715 |
| Publication date: |
4th June 2009 |
| Author: |
Tim Bowler |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| 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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