THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER

Brian Conaghan

ISBN 10: 1408855747 / ISBN 13: 9781408855744

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2016

About this Item

Carnegie-shortlisted author of 'When Mr Dog Bites'. ***First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence on the publisher's prelims copyright page, including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. ***Please note that the orange front free endpaper has been removed. The surface of the upper part of the front pastedown adjoining the spine where the ffep has been removed has also torn, showing the white underneath, instead of the orange [see scan]. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright orange front and rear pastedowns. Bright orange rear free endpaper. Pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £12.99. Tiny loss and rubbing to top corner of rear panel of dustwrapper. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. 224mm x 140mm. 361 pages. ***'Charlie has always lived in Little Town. It's home: the curfew, the Regime, the thugs, the poverty. He knows the rules. Then he meets Pavel. Scrawny, sweary, with fierce blue eyes, he is a refugee from Old Country. The wrongest person in the whole place to choose as a friend. But when the bombs come the rules of Little Town change. Country or friend? Trust or betrayal? Future or past? Right or wrong: Charlie must choose.'' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***A good reading copy of the first impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper. Winner of the2016 Children's Costa Book Award. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER
• Publisher: Bloomsbury, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408855747
• ISBN 13: 9781408855744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Literature
  • First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2016

Fourteen-year-old Charlie Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no drinking; no litter; no fighting. You don't want to get on the wrong side of the people who run Little Town. When he meets Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country, the rules start to get broken. Then the bombs come, and the soldiers from Old Country, and Little Town changes for ever.

Sometimes, to keep the people you love safe, you have to do bad things. As Little Town's rules crumble, Charlie is sucked into a dangerous game. There's a gun, and a bad man, and his closest friend, and his dearest enemy.

Charlie Law wants to keep everyone happy, even if it kills him. And maybe it will ...

Perfect for readers of Patrick Ness, John Boyne and Malorie Blackman.

About the Author

Brian Conaghan lives and works in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, and worked as a teacher for many years. His novel When Mr Dog Bites was shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal. The Bombs That Brought Us Together won the 2016 Costa Children's Book Award, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers won the 2018 Irish Book Award for Teen/YA Book of the Year, and We Come Apart, a verse novel co-authored with Carnegie Medal-winner Sarah Crossan, won the 2018 UKLA Book Award. Cardboard Cowboys, Brian's first middle-grade novel, published in 2021 and is full of his trademark heart, humour and crackling dialogue. Swimming on the Moon is his second middle-grade novel.
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