Costa Book Award 2018

Pieces of Me - Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award Natalie Hart (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Legend Press Ltd

Publisher:

Legend Press Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Oct 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h1980mm x w1290mm 40g ISBN13: 9781787198036 ISBN13: 978-1-78719-803-6 ISBN10: 1787198030 EAN: 9781787198036 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Unremarkable Body: A stunning literary debut with a twist Elisa Lodato (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

10 Jul 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h133mm x w200mm x s21mm 275g ISBN13: 9781474606356 ISBN13: 978-1-4746-0635-6 ISBN10: 1474606350 EAN: 9781474606356 x Description: ***Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018*** EVERY MOTHER IS A WOMAN WITH A PAST 'An intriguing tale of love and loss . . . written with verve and delivers an amazing twist' Sunday Mirror 'A haunting debut about grief, loss and motherhood' The Pool 'This novel pulls you in and will have you racing to reach the end' Good Housekeeping When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life that consumes her daughter, Laura. The medical examiner's report, in which precious parts of Katharine's body are weighed and categorised, motivates Laura to write her own version of events. But as she delves deeper into Katharine's past, she is forced to confront a new version of the woman she knew only as her mother. A woman silenced by her own mother and wronged by her husband. A woman who lived in the shadows but whose secrets are now coming to light. *** Includes an extract from Elisa Lodato's second novel The Necessary Marriage.*** 'An incredibly moving story of maternal love, sacrifice, and how little we know those closest to us' Chloe Mayer, author of The Boy Made of Snow 'Beautiful, sensitive, and poignant' Clarissa Goenawan, author of Rainbirds 'Spare, confident and affecting. A compelling read' Joanna Barnard, author of Precocious and Hush Little Baby _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018 Stuart Turton (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Raven Books

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

08 Feb 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 528pp h234mm x w153mm 791g 1 x double-spread illustrated floorplan (used as endpapers) ISBN13: 9781408889541 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-8954-1 ISBN10: 1408889544 EAN: 9781408889541 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG NOVEL AWARD 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018

A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror One of Stylist Magazine's 20 Must-Read Books of 2018 One of Harper's Bazaar's 10 Must-Read Books of 2018 One of Marie Claire, Australia's 10 Books You Absolutely Have to Read in 2018 `Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.'

It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.

But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Meet Me at the Museum Anne Youngson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Doubleday

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

17 May 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 224pp h216mm x w135mm x s16mm 243g ISBN13: 9780857525529 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-552-9 ISBN10: 0857525522 EAN: 9780857525529 x Description: The Observer Promising first-time British novelists 2018: 'A novel about self-discovery and second chances' 'Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savour' ANNIE BARROWS, co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

'A quirky, wise and tender novel. Proof that the richest fruits come on the edge of autumn' SARAH DUNANT

'Quietly intriguing, beautifully observed, full of powerful emotions' RUTH HOGAN, Author of The Keeper of Lost Things `Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.' JOHN BOYNE `A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again' RACHEL JOYCE 'I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone looking for a book that makes you think and wonder and quietly hope. I loved it' TAMMY COHEN 'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' Daily Express 'The loveliest short novel of late love you'll ever read. Whenever I talk about it, I simply cry with joy' JAMES HAWES

'Meet Me at the Museum starts so quiet and small like a bud tightly closed against the winter then it unfurls into something so alive and truly beautiful. I was immensely moved by it' TOR UDALL, author of A Thousand Paper Birds

Sometimes it takes a stranger to really know who you are

When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn't expect a reply.

When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, nor does he.

They're both searching for something, they just don't know it yet.

Anders has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. Tina is trapped in a marriage she doesn't remember choosing.

Slowly their correspondence blossoms as they bare their souls to each other with stories of joy, anguish and discovery. But then Tina's letters suddenly cease, and Anders is thrown into despair.

Can their unexpected friendship survive? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hamish Hamilton Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 Aug 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h240mm x w162mm x s32mm 555g ISBN13: 9780241338070 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33807-0 ISBN10: 0241338077 EAN: 9780241338070 x Description: This festive season, discover the greatest Greek myth of all, as you've never known it before Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold story of the women at the heart of history's greatest epic 'A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women' Kate Atkinson There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now.

Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?

Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness history forgot.

'Make[s] you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard Praise for Pat Barker:

'Barker delves unflinchingly into the enduring mysteries of human motivation' Sunday Telegraph 'She is not only a fine chronicler of war but of human nature' Independent 'Barker is a writer of crispness and clarity and an unflinching seeker of the germ of what it means to be human' Herald 'You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Italian Teacher: The Costa Award Shortlisted Novel Tom Rachman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

riverrun

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

22 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h237mm x w174mm x s28mm 500g ISBN13: 9781786482587 ISBN13: 978-1-78648-258-7 ISBN10: 1786482584 EAN: 9781786482587 x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD*** 'Wickedly funny, deeply touching . . . I confess this was the first of Rachman's novels I'd read but I was so swept away by it that I raced out to buy the other three' PATRICK GALE 'Relentlessly entertaining' Daily Mail Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome's historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot.

From the side of the room watches little Pinch - their son. At five years old he loves Bear almost as much as he fears him. After Bear abandons their family, Pinch will still worship him, while Natalie faces her own wars with the art world. Trying to live up to his father's name - one of the twentieth century's fiercest and most controversial painters - Pinch never quite succeeds. Yet by the end of a career of twists and compromises, he enacts an unexpected rebellion that will leave forever his mark upon the Bear Bavinsky legacy.

What makes an artist? In The Italian Teacher, Tom Rachman displays a nuanced understanding of art and its demons. Moreover, in Pinch he achieves a portrait of vulnerability and frustrated talent that - with his signature humour and humanity -- challenges the very idea of greatness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Normal People Sally Rooney (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export - Airside ed

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

29 Aug 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 321g ISBN13: 9780571347292 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34729-2 ISBN10: 0571347290 EAN: 9780571347292 x Description: Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds.

When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.

This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege.

Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

From a Low and Quiet Sea: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018 Donal Ryan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Doubleday Ireland

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd

Pub Date:

22 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: Ireland Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 192pp h216mm x w135mm x s14mm 194g ISBN13: 9781781620304 ISBN13: 978-1-78162-030-4 ISBN10: 178162030X EAN: 9781781620304 x Description: ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018*** 'Beautiful and affecting' David Nicholls 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLE Farouk's country has been torn apart by war.

Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe.

John's past torments him as he nears his end.

The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

To Throw Away Unopened Viv Albertine (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

05 Apr 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h210mm x w145mm x s21mm 454g ISBN13: 9780571326211 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32621-1 ISBN10: 0571326218 EAN: 9780571326211 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018 'Fierce, direct, unashamed. She masks nothing ... Scythes through the myths, the distortions, the adornments and finds the rich, distinctive stories underneath.' The Sunday Times 'A chronicle of outsiderness ... Searingly honest ... A painstaking and painful dissection of familial fallout.' The Observer What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.

Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty.

To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in blood-letting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger. It is a brutal expose of human dysfunctionality, the impossibility of true intimacy, and the damage wrought upon us by secrets and revelations, siblings and parents.

Yet it is also a testament to how we can rebuild ourselves and come to face the world again. It is a portrait of the love stories that constitute a life, often bringing as much pain as joy. With the inimitable blend of humour, vulnerability, and intelligence that makes Viv Albertine one of our finest authors working today, To Throw Away Unopened smashes through layers of propriety and leads us into a new place of savage self-discovery.

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found Bart van Es (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

10 Jan 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 233g ISBN13: 9780241978726 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97872-6 ISBN10: 0241978726 EAN: 9780241978726 x Description: WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2018 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' Times Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.

His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.

'Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street 'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Salt Path: The Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Biography Award & The Wainwright Prize Raynor Winn (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

31 Jan 2019

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9781405937184 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3718-4 ISBN10: 1405937181 EAN: 9781405937184 x Description: In one devastating week, Raynor and her husband Moth lost their house and received a terminal diagnosis that took away their future together. With nowhere to call home, they instead embarked on a journey: to walk the South West Coast Path, a 630-mile sea-swept trail from Somerset to Dorset, via Devon and Cornwall.

This ancient, wind-battered landscape lays them bare, stripping away every comfort they have ever known. With almost no money for food orshelter, carrying the essentials for survival on their backs, they wild camp on beaches and clifftops. Until slowly, with every step, every encounter, and every

test along the way, the walk sets them on a road of discovery. They don't know how far they will travel, but unexpectedly, they find themselves on a path to freedom.

The Salt Path is an unflinchingly honest, inspiring and life-affirming true story about coming to terms with grief and the healing power of nature.

Ultimately, it is a book about home, and how it can be lost, rebuilt, and rediscovered in the most unexpected of ways. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography Benjamin Zephaniah (Author) Series:

Edition:

EXPORT/IRELAND

Imprint:

Scribner UK

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Pub Date:

01 May 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w135mm x s22mm 2 x8pp full colour insert ISBN13: 9781471168932 ISBN13: 978-1-4711-6893-2 ISBN10: 147116893X EAN: 9781471168932 x Description: *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life.

In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the National Front, Benjamin's poetry could be heard at demonstrations, outside police stations and on the dance floor. His mission was to take poetry everywhere, and to popularise it by reaching people who didn't read books. His poetry was political, musical, radical and relevant.

By the early 1990s, Benjamin had performed on every continent in the world (a feat which he achieved in only one year) and he hasn't stopped performing and touring since. Nelson Mandela, after hearing Benjamin's tribute to him while he was in prison, requested an introduction to the poet that grew into a lifelong relationship, inspiring Benjamin's work with children in South Africa. Benjamin would also go on to be the first artist to record with The Wailers after the death of Bob Marley in a musical tribute to Nelson Mandela.

The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah is a truly extraordinary life story which celebrates the power of poetry and the importance of pushing boundaries with the arts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Us Zaffar Kunial (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

05 Jul 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 64pp h195mm x w135mm x s10mm 80g ISBN13: 9780571337651 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33765-1 ISBN10: 0571337651 EAN: 9780571337651 x Description: From the beginning, the poet was a wanderer, a storyteller, an imaginer of bridges between worlds. Zaffar Kunial is just such a poet and guide for us today. Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his father was born and now lives, to the Midlands of his mother's birth, and further north to ancestors in Orkney, as well as through language, memory and time. Already an acknowledged star of the Faber New Poets scheme, Kunial has won admirers in such measure as to ensure that Us is one of the most anticipated debuts in recent times. Across its pages, he vocalises what it means to be a human being planting your two feet upon the dizzying earth - and he does so delicately, urgently, intimately - in some of the most original and touching ways that you will read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Assurances J. O. Morgan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Jonathan Cape Ltd

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 Jun 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 64pp h197mm x w130mm x s6mm 86g ISBN13: 9781787330856 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-085-6 ISBN10: 1787330850 EAN: 9781787330856 x Description: **WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION** A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction.

Using a mix of versed and unversed passages, Morgan places moments of calm reflection alongside the tensions inherent in guarding against such a permanent threat. A work of variations and possibilities, we hear the thoughts of those involved who are trying to understand and justify their roles. We examine the lives of civilians who are not aware of the impending danger, as well as those who are. We listen to the whirring minds of machines; to the voice of the bomb itself. We spy on enemy agents: always there, always somewhere close at hand.

Assurances is an intimate, dramatic work for many voices: lyrical, anxious, fragmentary and terrifying; a poem about the nuclear stalemate, the deterrent that is still in place today: how it works and how it might fail, and what will vanish if it does. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Soho Richard Scott (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

05 Apr 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 88pp h197mm x w133mm x s7mm 115g ISBN13: 9780571338917 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33891-7 ISBN10: 0571338917 EAN: 9780571338917 x Description: In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry of Verlaine.

The collection crescendos to Scott's tour de force, 'Oh My Soho!', where a night stroll under the street lamps of Soho Square becomes a search for true lineage, a reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all, the finding of our truest selves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Three Poems Hannah Sullivan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

18 Jan 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h205mm x w159mm x s7mm 130g ISBN13: 9780571337675 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33767-5 ISBN10: 0571337678 EAN: 9780571337675

x Description: Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters make for a compelling unity. 'You, Very Young in New York' captures a great American city, in all its alluring detail. It is a wry and tender study of romantic possibility, disappointment, and the obduracy of innocence. 'Repeat until Time' begins with a move to California and unfolds into an essay on repetition and returning home, at once personal and philosophical. 'The Sandpit after Rain' explores the birth of a child and the loss of a father with exacting clarity.

In Three Poems, readers will experience Sullivan's work with the same exhilaration as they might the great modernising poems of Eliot and Pound, but with the unique perspective of a brilliant new female voice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Colour of the Sun David Almond (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Children's Books

Publisher:

Hachette Children's Group

Pub Date:

10 Jan 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h193mm x w128mm x s18mm 200g ISBN13: 9781444941135 ISBN13: 978-1-4449-4113-5 ISBN10: 1444941135 EAN: 9781444941135 x Description: A darkly twisted detective ghost tale, from the winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize.

Davie travels his small town in search of a supposed murderer. But the landscape soon starts to blur into something dark and twisted.

He must make sense of the landscape, if he has any chance of finding answers. The people he encounters on his travels don't seem entirely real either. Then he meets the victim of the murder ... but, is he dead, or alive? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bone Talk Candy Gourlay (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

David Fickling Books

Publisher:

David Fickling Books

Pub Date:

13 Dec 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 252pp h178mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9781788450188 ISBN13: 978-1-78845-018-8 ISBN10: 1788450183 x Description: A coming of age story set in a remote village in the Philippines, about growing up, discovering yourself and the impact of colonialism on native peoples and their lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Orphan Monster Spy Matt Killeen (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Usborne Publishing Ltd

Publisher:

Usborne Publishing Ltd

Pub Date:

08 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781474942386 ISBN13: 978-1-4749-4238-6 ISBN10: 1474942385

x Description: Sarah has played many roles - but now she faces her most challenging of all. Because there's only one way for a Jewish orphan spy to survive at a school for the Nazi elite. And that's to become a monster like them. They think she is just a little girl. But she is the weapon they never saw coming... with a mission to destroy them all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Skylarks' War Hilary McKay (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Macmillan Children's Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

27 Dec 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w130mm x s23mm 305g None ISBN13: 9781509894963 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-9496-3 ISBN10: 1509894969 EAN: 9781509894963 x Description: Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018.

The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay. Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September - boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father, as the shadow of a terrible war looms ever closer.

When Rupert goes off to fight at the front, Clarry feels their skylark summers are finally slipping away from them. Can their family survive this fearful war? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________