Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008. –David Fickling, the author's publisher. The London Eye Mystery is a children's mystery novel by English author Siobhan Dowd. She spent much of her youth visiting the family cottage in Aglish, County Waterford, and later the family home in Wicklow Town and went on to study Classics at Oxford. From David Fickling, the author's publisher: That editor approached Patrick Ness to take on the brief outline, and he created A Monster Calls. Beautifully written and achingly moving, Solace of the Road is the poignant and desperate story of one girl’s search for her mother. Format: Paperback Release Date: 05/02/2009, Author: Siobhan Dowd Every penny of royalties from Siobhan's book sales go to the trust that has been set up in her memory - www.siobhandowdtrust.org, Author: Siobhan Dowd On 21st August 2007, Dowd died of breast cancer at the age of 47. New and challenging book full of mystery and shadows from recently deceased author Siobhan Dowd. In May 2007, Siobhan was named one of "25 authors of the future" by Waterstones Books as part of the latter's 25th anniversary celebrations. From Siobhan Dowd: He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children's Book Award. And amongst young readers, the disadvantaged young reader is the most deprived of all. |   You can buy Siobhan’s books at the DFB bookshop or hive. Illustrator: Pam Smy But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the centre of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. Everybody should read her.' They were Solace of the Road, Bog Child, A Swift Pure Cry and The London Eye Mystery but her memory lives on in a Trust that has been set up in her name as well as through her writing. They are ordinary people living in England and Ireland who find extraordinary ways to overcome the difficulties in their lives and for me that’s the essence of any good story: it’s where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.' Author: Siobhan Dowd Random House Children's Books, Sep 9, 2008 - Young Adult Fiction - 312 pages. From Siobhan Dowd: Siobhan Dowd writes without judgement but with enormous sympathy and understanding capturing Shell’s confusion and the hypercritical and chaotic thinking of the small Irish community in which she is growing up. Siobhan Dowd was a passionate defender of human rights and was particularly interested in Traveller communities and the experiences of Traveller young people. Running away from her foster home, Holly dons the blonde wig she finds and reinvents herself as the older, more glamorous and dangerously bold Solace and sets off to hitchhike to Ireland which, in her memory, is the place she locates her mother. The award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Siobhan's third novel, Bog Child, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008. They are Solace of the Road, Bog Child, A Swift Pure Cry and The London Eye Mystery but her memory lives on in a Trust that has been set up in her name as well as through her writing. Her first, A Swift Pure Cry, was shortlisted for nearly all the major awards last year and although this second novel is very different it has that same page-turner quality about it. Lovereading comment:This may only be Siobhan Dowd’s second novel but it’s clear her talent as a superb storyteller is beyond question. London SE3 9TZ, Copyright © 2016 The Siobhan Dowd Trust. When Salim mysteriously disappears while on a ride on the London Eye everyone is frantic and even the police are baffled. And, of readers, the young reader is the most vulnerable. But her pictures and Siobhan’s words are of then, in a place beyond. New and challenging book full of mystery and shadows from recently deceased author Siobhan Dowd. Everybody should read her.' What the Bisto Judges said: A finely constructed novel, beautifully written by a master storyteller. A challenging book full of mystery and shadows. Since Dowd’s death, her publisher has brought out her Carnegie-winning novel, Solace of the Road. – Siobhan Dowd 'In 2007 Siobhan Dowd was voted one of the twenty-five British writers for the future (only three were children’s writers). The Siobhan Dowd Trust Tired of looking after her younger brother and sister and bored by the routines of school and church, Shell skips school and hangs around with her friends smoking and cracking jokes and looking for chances that will confirm their growing up. I had thought he’d say it was nothing to do with the length, it was the content that counted. – Siobhan Dowd, 'In 2007 Siobhan Dowd was voted one of the twenty-five British writers for the future (only three were children’s writers). They are ordinary people living in England and Ireland who find extraordinary ways to overcome the difficulties in their lives and for me that’s the essence of any good story: it’s where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.' Winner of Carnegie Award 2009 and the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award 2009. He turns and waves and the pod rises from the ground. The plot follows Fergus, a boy who finds the body of a child and it looks like she's been murdered. Everybody should read her.' Every penny of royalties from Siobhan's book sales go to the trust that has been set up in her memory - www.siobhandowdtrust.org. But what follows is not a simple transition into adulthood but the tragedy of Shell’s hidden pregnancy and the stillbirth of her baby. A Piece of Passion from Pam Smy, Illustrator of the Ransom of Dond When I left the offices of David Fickling Books in April of 2011 clutching the typescript of The Ransom of Dond I had no idea of the delight the tale was going to give me. She said of her writing: “The protagonists in my stories aren’t human rights heroes in the conventional sense. From David Fickling, the author's publisher: Every penny of royalties from Siobhan's book sales go to the trust that has been set up in her memory - www.siobhandowdtrust.org, Author: Siobhan Dowd The former won the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Darra is an omen of unluck: a thirteenth child. New and challenging book full of mystery and shadows from recently deceased author Siobhan Dowd. From Siobhan Dowd: They are ordinary people living in England and Ireland who find extraordinary ways to overcome the difficulties in their lives and for me that’s the essence of any good story: it’s where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.' The question is, is his theory right and will the others listen to him? This feeling of excitement stayed with me as I worked on the illustrations for the book. Siobhan's third novel, Bog Child, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008. Through her impressions of the present and her memories of the past, ‘Solace’ pieces together the painful fragments of her life. Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2007. Dowd edited three anthologies in the Threatened Literature Series for the Freedom to Write Committee of the PEN American Center: This Prison Where I Live (Cassell, 1996) and, jointly with Ian Hancock and Rajko Djuric, The Roads of the Roma: a PEN Anthology of Gypsy Writers (University of Hertfordshire Press, 1998 and 2004). Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009, for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 and for the 20th Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award 2010. 'This is a beautifully written and controlled novel, strong on dialogue but with some beautiful descriptive phrases as well. To a thirteen year old girl, a curse, and a dark god. PZ7.D7538 Bog 2008. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, was published by David Fickling Books on 7 June 2007. 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. When Shell Talent’s mother dies everything around her begins to fall to pieces. The take on religion is not predictable and the outcome extraordinarily life affirming. Both terrifying and fascinating from the start, Bog Child is a must-read for 2008. A Piece of Passion from David Fickling, Publisher, David Fickling Books  I asked the literary editor of a national newspaper a while back whether long or short books were more likely to get a review. They are Solace of the Road, Bog Child, A Swift Pure Cry and The London Eye Mystery but her memory lives on in a Trust that has been set up in her name as well as through her writing. In May 2007 it won many children’s book awards including the prestigious Brandford Boase Award. Running away from her foster home, Holly dons the blonde wig she finds and reinvents herself as the older, more glamorous and dangerously bold Solace and sets off to hitchhike to Ireland which, in her memory, is the place she locates her mother.
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