THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER

Brian Conaghan

ISBN 10: 1408855747 / ISBN 13: 9781408855744

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2016

About this Item

Carnegie-shortlisted author of 'When Mr Dog Bites'. ***First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence on the publisher's prelims copyright page, including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. ***Please note that the orange front free endpaper has been removed. The surface of the upper part of the front pastedown adjoining the spine where the ffep has been removed has also torn, showing the white underneath, instead of the orange [see scan]. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright orange front and rear pastedowns. Bright orange rear free endpaper. Pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £12.99. Tiny loss and rubbing to top corner of rear panel of dustwrapper. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. 224mm x 140mm. 361 pages. ***'Charlie has always lived in Little Town. It's home: the curfew, the Regime, the thugs, the poverty. He knows the rules. Then he meets Pavel. Scrawny, sweary, with fierce blue eyes, he is a refugee from Old Country. The wrongest person in the whole place to choose as a friend. But when the bombs come the rules of Little Town change. Country or friend? Trust or betrayal? Future or past? Right or wrong: Charlie must choose.'' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***A good reading copy of the first impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper. Winner of the2016 Children's Costa Book Award. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER
• Publisher: Bloomsbury, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408855747
• ISBN 13: 9781408855744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: First Impression
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Children's Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Hamish Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no drinking; no litter; no fighting. You don't want to get on the wrong side of the people who run Little Town. When he meets Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country, the rules start to get broken. Then the bombs come, and the soldiers from Old Country, and Little Town changes for ever.

Sometimes, to keep the people you love safe, you have to do bad things. As Little Town's rules crumble, Hamish is sucked into a dangerous game. There's a gun, and a bad man, and his closest friend, and his dearest enemy.

Hamish Law wants to keep everyone happy, even if it kills him. And maybe it will ... But he's got to kill someone else first. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/the-bomb...

About the Author

Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. His novels include The Boy Who Made it Rain, When Mr Dog Bites, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal, and The Bombs That Brought Us Together, published in 2016 to critical acclaim.