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Biographical note
David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcières (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature. David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born. www.davidalmond.comMagic of a very different kind
- Erica Wagner, The Times
An enthralling, multi-layered and complex story with a tension that builds and grips the reader. A wonder ful read.
The Bookseller
A writer of subtle, page-turning and daring exactness.
The Times Educational Supplement
Extremely good. Written with an acute sense of place plus a touch of the supernatural.
The Independent
Sensitive and absorbing.
The Observer
Has the same mesmerising quality of writing and a hauntingly intense plot.
The Sunday Times
The book treats all the great universal themes of literature - love, loss, redemption, mortality - with elegant, tender simplicity, and it is bound to touch any reader of whatever age.
- Raymond Seitz, The Daily Telegraph
Very touching.
The Daily Telegraph
An essential read from an original voice.
The Daily Telegraph
A haunting read for thoughtful readers.
The Daily Telegraph
A moving rites-of-passage novel.
The Guardian Weekly
This superb piece of lyrically-written literary fiction captivates teenagers and their parents alike.
The Guardian
Almond's magic is subtle, breath-taking, redemptive.
The Times
Gripping, convincing and effortlessly well-written
The Observer Review
Dark and gripping.
The Times
Almond's masterpiece:<i> Kit's Wilderness</i> is one of those rare works that changes how we see the world
The Guardian
Could a children's book win the Booker? The best writing is the kind that defies categories, and Almond's Kit's Wilderness makes the grade.
The Times
You can feel the chill from the ghosts that haunt its pages. An essential read from an original voice in children's books.
The Daily Telegraph
David Almond is a writer of subtle, page-turning and daring exactness, and he applies the same potent poetic and emphatic skills in his equally moving new novel.
Times Educational Supplement
A children's book of stunning freshness and individuality.
Literary Review
Deeper and more unsettling than Almond's breakthrough book.
Books For Keeps
Dark and gripping.
The Times