The Danger of Small Things
The YA debut from an award-winning and bestselling Welsh storyteller
$27.99
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
A Handmaid’s Tale meets How I Live Now in this page-turning dystopian YA which the author has described as a ‘love letter to her daughter’.
In a world where bees are at risk of extinction, one girl fights for her own survival.
Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It’s a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It’s a world without art, without books, without plays. Girls are sent away from home, forced to pollinate crops by hand with brushes and to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398549272 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1398549274 |
| Author: | Caryl Lewis |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 21mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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About The Author
Caryl Lewis
Caryl Lewis is an award-winning Welsh novelist, children’s writer, playwright, and screenwriter.
Her breakthrough novel, Martha, Jac a Sianco, is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation (with a screenplay by Caryl) won six Welsh BAFTAs and the Spirit of the Festival Award at the Celtic Media Festival.
Caryl’s other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. She is also the author of The Danger of Small Things.
She is a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Cardiff University and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth.
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