Contemporary Authors


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These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).




Zzaap and the Word Master


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This new novel from the acclaimed children's author Berlie Doherty has been adapted into a BBC Television drama for 7-9 year olds. It is the strangest, most unforgettable day ever for the pupils in Miss Wordsworth's class - especially for Peter and Josie. One minute they are sitting in front of the computer, the next they're in it - actually inside the computer game and pawns in the grip of Victor Virus as he attempts to conquer Cyberspace. Luckily, Zzaap is on their side. Can they find their way through the Castle of Gloom and avoid being stuck on the Wall of Spikes? is there any way out of No Hope Valley? And what if they do make it to the end of the game and meet the terrifying Word Master? The future of Cyberspace hangs in the balance, as do the lives of Peter and Josie.







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Street Child


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Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.




Treason


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Adventure, friendship, treason and betrayal. A dazzling historical novel from the award-winning Berlie Doherty. Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. As the King's favourite, Will gains many enemies in Court. His enemies convince the King that Will's father has committed treason and he is thrown into Newgate Prison. Will flees Hampton Court and goes into hiding in the back streets of London. Lost and in mortal danger, he is rescued by a poor boy, Nick Drew. Together they must brave imprisonment and death as they embark on a great adventure to set Will's father free. 'Doherty paints a very vivid picture... almost Shardlake for young readers' Independent on Sunday




Dear Nobody


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Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.




Far from Home: the Sisters of Street Child (Street Child)


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The sisters of STREET CHILD tell their story...A companion novel to bestselling story of orphan Jim Jarvis set in Victorian England.




The Legend of the Lost Keys


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Children of Winter


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A new edition of the much loved classic.Catherine and her family set out for her grandmother's house deep in the Derbyshire hills. Sheltering from a storm in an old cruck barn with her younger sister and brother, it becomes strangely familiar to her, and she is drawn back to a time when three children sheltered all winter away from a terrible plague that was devastating their village.Written by a master storyteller Children of Winter recreates the time when the tiny village of Eyam in Derbyshire cut itself off from the rest of England in 1666.Cover Art by Tamsin Rosewell.