Zero Per Cent (Collins Flamingo)

Swallow, Mark

ISBN 10: 0007126492 / ISBN 13: 9780007126491

Published by Element, 2009

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Seller Inventory # CHL2851504

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zero Per Cent (Collins Flamingo)
• Publisher: Element
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007126492
• ISBN 13: 9780007126491
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Good

About this title

Synopsis

Jack Curling tells his life story from 11-15 while sitting in Business Studies GCSE, writing nothing but his number, knowing that this will earn him precisely 0%.

Jack is caught in the slipstream of decisions, decisions made without reference to him and what he wants. Can't he run his life on his own terms? He's pretty famous at school – Jack Curling, entrepreneur and wheeler dealer. Surely his dad can see that he's OK doing it his way? It's time to prove a point. The exam is waiting. Can he get precisely 0%?

About the Author

Mark Swallow was born in 1963. After studying history at Oxford University, he trained as a journalist on the Gloucestershire Echo. He has travelled and worked in China and India. He is now a teacher in Bristol, where he lives with his wife and son, Finn.