The London Eye Mystery
$16.80
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2016
Summary
An original, gripping and multi-award-winning mystery from the extraordinarily talented Siobhan Dowd.
11.32am. Ted and his sister Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye. The pod rises from the ground, high above the city.
12.02am. The pod lands and the doors open. Everyone exits - everyone but Salim.
Has he spontaneously combusted? (Ted’s theory.) Has he been kidnapped? (Aunt Gloria’s theory.) Is he even still alive? (The family’s unspoken fear.)
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141376554 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141376554 |
| Author: | Siobhan Dowd |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 20mm |
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Compulsive reading
A thoroughly gripping detective story * Sunday Telegraph *Compulsive reading * Independent *Grips the reader from the opening chapter * Sunday Times *Dowd transforms disability into a gift * The Times *A wonderfully written mystery. It is funny, nerve-wracking and tender by turns, with plenty of pace and excitement as well as some moments for serious reflection * School Librarian *Everything about this book - the perky tone, the subtlety of characterisation and the cleverness of the plotting - is absolutely right * Irish Times *
About The Author
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.
Siobhan’s first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children’s Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Awards. Siobhan’s third novel, Bog Child, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008.
The award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan’s. Her novella, The Ransom of Dond, was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy.
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