My Name is Mina
$19.92
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2011
Summary
There’s an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It’s been there for an age. I keep on saying that I’ll write a journal. So I’ll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. Then what shall I write I can’t just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I’ll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Why should a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340997260 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340997265 |
| Author: | David Almond |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Hodder Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 267g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Hodder Children's Books |
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Unsettling but, as ever, beautifully written.
a master novelist - Independent
There really is nobody quite like Almond writing in children’s or adults’ fiction today. - The TimesAlmond manages to make a work of art out of the simplest words. - Amanda Craig, The TimesUnsettling but, as ever, beautifully written. - Daily MailOne of these days, someone is going to notice that David Almond has been kidnapped by children’s publishing and demand him back for adults. But until then, we must rejoice in every new offering of his. - Sunday Telegraph“This is a novel of power and beauty.” - The Daily TelegraphAlmond promotes and celebrates freedom for children and their thinking in this lyrical book about growing up. - Guardian (Julia Eccleshare)About The Author
David Almond
David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Counting Stars, The Savage, Island, A Song for Ella Grey, The Colour of the Sun 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 Sorcieres (France) and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. In 2010 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world’s most prestigious prize for children’s authors.
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 Bath and in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.
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