Kevin Brooks

With his father dead, Martyn has a choice. Tell the police what happened - and be suspected of murder. Or get rid of the body and get on with the rest of his life.Simple, right? Not quite. One story leads to another. Secrets and lies become darker and crazier. And Martyn is faced with twists and turns that leave him reeling.Life is never easy. But death is even harder.

Nach seinem letzten Fall muss John Craine eine Weile aus der Stadt verschwinden. Er nutzt die Gelegenheit, nach Hale Island zu fahren, wo er als Kind oft mit seinen Eltern die Wochenenden verbracht hat. Jetzt ist das große Hotel Victoria Hall halb verfallen. Doch John geht es ohnehin nicht um Badeurlaub. Als sein Vater sich vor neunzehn Jahren umbrachte, hatte er ein Verhältnis mit einer jungen Frau, Serina Mayo, die jetzt mit ihrer neunzehnjährigen Tochter Robyn in der Nähe von Hale Island lebt. John findet heraus, dass Robyn ein Junkie ist und sich mit ein paar sehr zwielichtigen Gestalten eingelassen hat. Dann entdeckt John in einem alten Bunker am Strand eine Tote. Als er die Polizei zum Bunker führt, ist die Leiche jedoch verschwunden ...

The Bunker Diary

''Did I hate him? Of course I hated him. But I never meant to kill him.''With his father dead, Martyn has a choice. Tell the police what happened and be suspected of murder, or get rid of the body and get on with the rest of his life. Simple, right? Not quite. One story leads to another. Secrets and lies become darker and crazier, and Martyn is faced with twists and turns that leave him reeling. Life is never easy. But death is even harder.The extraordinary, ground-breaking debut novel from Kevin Brooks is darkly humorous, strangely moving and completely riveting.

The much anticipated follow-up title from the multi-award winning author of The Bunker Diary, recipient of the 2014 Carnegie Medal for an outstanding book for young adults. Elliot is terrified of almost everything. From the moment he was born, his life has been governed by acute fear. The only thing that keeps his terrors in check are the pills that he takes every day. It's Christmas Eve, there's a snowstorm and Elliot's medication is almost gone. His mum nips out to collect his prescription. She'll only be 10 minutes - but when she doesn't come back, Elliot must face his fears and try to find her. She should only be 400 metres away. It might as well be 400 miles...Born Scared joins the ranks of Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places, Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of A Funny Story, and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why as an example of teen fiction offering a frank and intelligent portrait of mental illness. Kevin Brooks was born in 1959. His first novel, Martyn Pig, was shortlisted for a 2002 Carnegie Medal and won the 2003 Branford Boase Award. His second novel, Lucas, won the 2004 North East Book Award. In 2014 his novel The Bunker Diary was awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Kevin lives in North Yorkshire.

Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong. 'What the hell is that?' 'That, Mr Ryan, is the inside of this boy.' 'Christ... It looks like some kind of plastic.' As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is. Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what if the answers are too terrifying to face? This is Kevin Brooks at his very best - powerful, intense, page-turning reading for teenage readers and beyond.

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THE BREATHTAKING NEW NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR KEVIN BROOKS Jeet was raised by a pack of wild dogs. Recaptured and `rehumanised', Jeet now lives with the last of his people in an ancient walled town in the vast expanse of the Deathlands, besieged by a much larger enemy clan. They are preparing for the final battle and it's Jeet's task to record the events. But Jeet is struggling to come to terms with his half-human, half-dog identity. Can the impending conflict, and his relationship with another rehumanised dogchild, shed any light on what it takes to be a survivor? Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and studied in Birmingham and London. 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 is the author of many acclaimed award-winning young adult novels, including Martyn Pig, Lucas, Kissing The Rain, The Road of the Dead, Black Rabbit Summer and iBoy. He now lives in North Yorkshire. The Bunker Diary won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2014.

Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called. 'Listen, Pete... you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground... I thought we could all meet up... You know, for old times' sake.' But, where there are old times, there are old tensions. And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives... Teenage readers will find it impossible to tear themselves away from this dark, tense and gripping new novel from award-winning Kevin Brooks.

En Hale, una pequeña isla de apenas cuatro kilómetros de largo y dos de ancho, ocurre una historia de amor inusual pero conmovedora. Caitlin, una adolescente de 15 años, hija de un escritor viudo y alcoholico, descubre que su apacible vida ha dado un vuelco tras conocer a Lucas, un enigmatico joven extranjero que parece venir de ninguna parte. Conforme crecen los sentimientos de Caitlin por Lucas, aumentan tambien las sospechas sobre el, sobre todo cuando un anciano tropieza a la orilla de la playa con el cuerpo de una chica acuchillada. Este libro gano el premio de literatura juvenil en Alemania en 2006.

Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong. As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is. Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what if the answers are too terrifying to face?

Al caminar por las calles de Londres, el joven músico Joe Beck conoce a Candy, prostituta unos años mayor que él y adicta a la heroína. Enamorado de ella, dejará su mundo cómodo y tranquilo para ayudarla, aunque eso implique arriesgar su vida para que ella escape de Iggy, el hombre que la vende. Segunda novela publicada por el Fondo de Kevin Brooks, Candy es una novela para el publico juvenil que ha sido descrita por el diario ingles The Guardian como una historia cuya agudeza contrasta con lo dulce de su titulo, sin respuestas faciles y con algo oscuro al acecho.

During a vicious gang assault on his friend Lucy, Tom suffers a freak head injury that puts him in a coma. When he wakes up, he discovers that the injury has left him with extraordinary powers that gradually lead him into a world of revenge, retribution, madness and love.

Mike Nelson, wegen seiner Korperfulle Moo genannt, lasst Beleidigungen und Prugel, die er in der Schule als verachteter Auenseiter oft einsteckt, an sich abprallen wie Regen. Sein Zufluchtsort ist eine Autobahnbrucke, von der aus er den Verkehr beobachtet, sich an Lichtern und Bewegungen berauscht. Dabei wird er Zeuge eines Vorfalls, den er nicht deuten kann: Ein Wagen drangt einen anderen ab, die Fahrer halten auf dem Standstreifen, geraten in Streit, ein Mann geht zu Boden.Spater werden die Ermittlungsbehorden behaupten, der Fahrer des abgedrangten Wagens habe den anderen erstochen. Moo aber hat genau gesehen, dass das nicht stimmt. Da es sich bei dem Beschuldigten um den beruchtigten Kriminellen Keith Vine handelt, den die Staatsanwaltschaft schon lange dingfest machen will, ist die Sache auerst brisant: Was Moo gesehen hat, macht ihn zum Entlastungszeugen fur Vine doch will er das uberhaupt sein?

¿Qué fue lo que le atrajo de Candy? ¿Fue solo una cuestión física? ¿O fue aquella enigmática distancia con la que parecía protegerse? Joe no tiene ni idea, solo sabe que, aunque su encuentro con Candy fue fugaz, ya no puede vivir sin ella. Y el problema es que, como intente verla de nuevo, no le dejaran seguir vivo. Candy es una novela realista que nos sumerge en una aventura ambientada en el mundo de la prostitucion.

Before the advent of true 3D polygons, video game developers faced a monumental visual challenge: how do you make a completely flat, two-dimensional screen feel like a living, breathing, infinite world? The solution was not a hardware upgrade, but a brilliant hack of human visual perception.By moving different layers of background images at slightly different speedsa technique known as parallax scrollingprogrammers tricked the human eye into perceiving deep spatial depth where none existed. Slower-moving mountains in the back and fast-moving ground in the front created an incredibly immersive illusion of speed and scale. What began as a desperate technical workaround to bypass hardware limitations quickly evolved into the defining aesthetic of the 16-bit golden age.This book unpacks the ingenious mathematics and artistry behind early game rendering. It explores how legendary studios meticulously hand-painted scrolling layers to simulate complex camera movements, and how this specific technical restriction birthed a beloved visual style that modern indie developers are still desperately trying to replicate today.Revisit the visual magic of your childhood through the lens of technical mastery. Understand the exact optical illusions that made classic platformers feel alive, and appreciate the immense engineering required to fake a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional grid.

Dean blazes into Johns life in the summer of Year 10. Hes scary, but exciting too, and soon the boys summer seems set to be one theyll never forget.A darkly humorous and brilliantly observed teen drama about the intensity of teenage friendships and disaffected youth. When Dean first appears at school, Jack knows right away that there''s something different about him.The two form a fast bond and dream of starting a band together, but underneath all the usual teenage posturing of drinking, drugs and rebellion against authority, there''s a darker side to Dean that needs more - more wildness, more violence.

A Elliot le aterra casi todo. Desde el momento en que nació, su vida ha estado ligada a un miedo inexplicable hacia la mayoría de las cosas. Ahora, lo único que mantiene sus terrores a raya son las pastillas amarillas que toma diariamente; sin embargo, justo en Nochebuena, Elliot se queda sin medicina, entonces su madre tiene que salir a la farmacia para surtir otra receta. Parece que nada puede salir mal, sin embargo, después de un largo rato, ella no regresa. Elliot sospecha que algo sucedió, pero, ¿tendrá el valor para enfrentar sus miedos y salir a buscarla?