Melvin Burgess

Theres a woman who visits Marianne every day. Shes desperate and upset, but Marianne is unable to reach out to her shes in a coma. A powerful drama about a mother clinging to hope and a daughter trying to find her way back.A haunting, powerful drama from Carnegie Medalist Melvin Burgess. A girl in a coma. A desperate mother. Marianne has been absent from her own life for so long that even her mother''s unwavering faith is starting to tremble.But Marianne, floating in her own world, is starting to remember who she is - and the sad woman that visits every day. Can they both persist long enough to find a way back to one another?

The Bloods are in control and theyre desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see: right, white, Christian supremist. Anyone who they call abnormal is a target. Amidst the chaos of civil war the country is on the move as small militia groups fight each other and a sea of refugees escapes the cities and the pursuing Bloods.When her home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Marti must strike out on a mission of her own - to save her father and get his vital software into the right hands. But Marti is mixed race and trans and has her young brother in tow. Crossing into enemy territory could prove suicidal. Yet Marti''s enemies haven''t reckoned with her indomitable will to survive - and the gun she carries, which has three bullets . . .

From acclaimed and controversial author, Melvin Burgess, a terrifying new Hammer Horror novella about a teenager and her relationship with a ghoul. When Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt, she puts it down to an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when reports of a desecrated grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings take on a sinister air. Soon the city is being plagued by strange sightings and sudden disappearances. Beth knows that something is changing within her. Something that's filling her with an urgent, desperate hunger that demands to be satisfied - at any cost...

A en Billy, fill d''un miner del nord d''Anglaterra, li agrada la dansa i haurà de vèncer molts prejudicis per poder arribar a ser un gran ballarí.A en Billy, el fill d''un miner del nord d''Anglater

Contemporary / British English (Available March 2008) Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finally he has found something that he can do well. But everybody knows that ballet is for girls, not boys! Will Billy continue to dance? Or have his father and brother got other plans for him?

A re-telling of the animated Disney film "Treasure Planet", this book follows Jim Hawkins, a rebellious solar-surfing teenager, on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. In search of treasure, Jim finds himself involved in battles and betrayal.

Billy Elliot vit dans une ville miniere d''Angleterre. Dans la famille Elliot, on est mineur de pere en fils, et depuis de longues semaines, on se bat pour que le gouvernement ne ferme pas les mines. Dans la famille Elliot, on fait de la boxe de pere en fils mais, sur le ring, Billy esquive les coups, fait des pirouettes. On dirait qu''il danse. Et c''est ce qu''il aime Billy, danser. Et il est doue. Si doue qu''il pourrait un jour devenir danseur etoile. Mais pour ça, il va devoir se battre. Pour la famille Elliot commence alors un nouveau combat, un combat plein d''espoir...

Brandon is a boaster he says he is brilliant at lots of things. Then he is challenged to count up to ten million. So Brandon starts: one, two, three . . . and before long he is up to one thousand. Everyone around him is bewildered and annoyed: his friend Waris, his teachers and Miss Hexx, the head. But Brandon cant stop counting. And the higher he counts, the more everyone takes an interest, when Brandon reaches 30,000 he goes viral, by the time he gets to one million, he has a manager and a stadium full of fans counting with him. And then strange, impossible things start happening. The numbers are taking over everything . . .A fun and contemporary story about rise and fall of celebrity, and ultimately staying true to yourself.

The Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction Prize winning classic YA novel reissued for a new generation With an introduction by Malorie Blackman and all new material exploring the book s controversial history It was a love story Me Gemma and junk I thought it was going to last forever Tar loves Gemma but Gemma doesn t want to be tied down She wants to fly But no one can fly forever One day finally you have to come down Melvin Burgess most ambitious and complex novel is a vivid depiction of a group of teenagers in the grip of addiction Told from multiple viewpoints Junk is a powerful unflinching novel about the effects of drug abuse on teenagers Once you take a hit you will never be the same again Everyone should read Junk The Times

Tar ama a Gemma. Pero Gemma non quere atarse a nada nin a ninguén. Están fartos das súas familias. O pai de Tar, alcólico, malla na súa muller e Gemma sente que a vida na súa casa está chea de prohibicions. Queren voar: foxen a Bristol na procura de okupas. Ali compartiran toda a sua vida, incluindo a sua adiccion pola heroina, con Rob e Lily. Inician asi un camiño de destruccion e desesperacion. Tar comenta: se non importa non chegar os vinte anos, non hai ningun argumento contra a heroina.Con Ionqui, novela gañadora do Carnegie Medal e do The Guardian Prize for fiction, Melvin Burgess debuxa con brillantez o descenso gradual na adiccion as drogas. Non hai aqui sermons moralizantes, so a enxeñosa revelacion de feitos frios e duros. En palabras do propio autor O libro non e real; nin sequera e unha ficcionalizacion da realidade. Mais todo el e certo, cada palabra. Melvin Burgess utiliza a primeira persoa en cada un dos trinta e dous capitulos da obra, dez voces diferentes que amosan unha vision, moitas veces terrible, das motivacions e dos cambios de cada un dos protagonistas. Asi a personalidade de Tar muda dramaticamente no curso do libro, dende ser un rapaz solitario e agradable a ser un adicto cos nervios a flor de pel que busca pelexa. Traducida, en a penas dous anos, a vintecinco linguas, Ionqui e unha novela que persiste na memoria dos seus lectores e lectoras moito tempo despois de acadar o seu final.

Melvin Burgess dark fantasy epics inspired by Norse mythology now available as one sensational duology for a new generation of fans London is in ruins The once glorious city is now a gated wasteland cut off from the rest of the country and in the hands of two warring families the Volsons and the Conors In Bloodtide Val Volson offers the hand of his young daughter Signy to Conor as a truce At first the marriage seems to have been blessed by the gods but betrayal and deceit are never far away in this violent world and the lives of both families are soon to be changed for ever A generation later in Bloodsong fifteen year old Sigurd son of King Sigmund is the last surviving member of the Volson clan His father s kingdom the former city of London is gone Armed with a legendary weapon Sigurd faces death fire and torment as he travels through Hel and back to unite his country once again

Billie é uma adolescente que não tem pai nem mãe, mas é boa de briga e enfrenta o mundo na base da porrada; Rob é um garoto boa-praça, fã de heavy metal, atormentado pelo padrasto em casa e pelo bull