Winner of 2014 Times/ Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. This wonderful adventure story, winner of the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, is set on a beautiful Scottish island, where two teenagers – a Scottish boy and an American girl – find themselves caught up in a people smuggling racket. Fraser is out at night whale watching with local expert Ben McCaig when he thinks he sees a man in the water. Next morning Fraser finds a stranger hiding on the shore: Jonah was forced overboard but managed to make his way to land. His friend Solomon, who’d travelled with him from Africa, was less lucky and they find his body. A story of treachery and betrayal unfolds. Fraser’s brother Dunny plays an important part too: he has mild autism and is electively mute, though able in a mysterious way to communicate with whales. The descriptions of sea, shore and whales, are exhilarating, and the story itself is gripping: this is Moonfleet given a modern twist. ~ Andrea Reece
A Piece of Passion from Barry Cunningham, Publisher Worthy winner of our Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, this great novel is a blast of fresh air – literally! Kerr has written a wide-awake thriller set amongst the waves, the wind and the wild beauty of a Scottish island, threatened by some very modern nastiness. I love our remote wilderness, and believe, like Kerr’s unexpected characters, that our bonds with the wild creatures need re-establishing to save what we still can!
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