****If you enjoyed The Bunker Diary and want to get inside more of your favourite books, then check out .uk for exclusive author interviews, competitions and much more. Kevin is the author of Being, Black Rabbit Summer, Killing God (published as Dawn in the USA), iBoy and Naked for Penguin. He had a varied working life, with jobs in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and studied in Birmingham and London. Kevin Brooks has won the Branford Boase Award and been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Manchester Book Award and for the Carnegie Medal (for Martyn Pig, Road of the Dead and Black Rabbit Summer). Hey Leute, hier kommt noch mein Buch aus dem August fr meine Jugendliteraturbuchpreischallenge -)'Abzhlen'. If I'm right, the lift will come down in five minutes. Brookss (The Road of the Dead) latest novel wraps high-speed. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. Being by Kevin Brooks - .uk book review WebBeing by Kevin Brooks is in the. It was still dark when I woke up this morning.Īs soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was.Ī low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. The descriptions are poetic, and the dialogue is lyrical but realistic.Room meets Lord of the Flies, The Bunker Diary is award-winning, young adult writer Kevin Brooks's pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true - and how will you survive? A haunting, tense drama builds from the first line and only lets up for scenes of brutal, vivid violence that bring readers back down to earth." - School Library Journal "Brooks succeeds on every level with this enthralling mystery/thriller that will keep readers turning pages well past bedtime. "Fans of Brooks's Martyn Pig, Kissing the Rain, Candy and Lucas, won't be disappointed by this thrilling, gritty story and it's memorable, heart-breaking characters." - Kirkus Reviews "Brooks's feel for mood and setting is as masterful here as in his taut, noir Martyn Pig. It's a long road, cold and hard and violent. This is the story of the boys' journey from their half-Roma home on a London junk lot to the ghostly moors of Devon, where they hope and fear to find the truth about their sister's death. Cole, seventeen, is a dark-eyed devil who doesn't care if he lives or dies, while Ruben, fourteen, is a strange child who sometimes, inexplicably, experiences sensations above and beyond his own. Three days later, her two younger brothers set out in search of her murderer.
"Peopled with singular protagonists and downright scary villains, this bleak-yet-romantic tale is a whirlwind ride for the right reader." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) On a storm-ravaged night, a nineteen-year-old girl is kidnapped, raped, and killed.
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