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Nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Nicholas Wilde's third novel, Down Came a Blackbird, probes deeply into the mind of an unloved boy, whose nightmares fuse with the lost dreams of those who lived in an old dark house long before he was born. James woke up in pitch darkness. He'd been dreaming. He'd been on his own in a silent black room and a noise had come, scratching its way towards him. He shrank back in his pillow. The noise in his dream...

Matthew has come with his mother to the north Norfolk coast where she has rented a cottage in the grounds of an abandoned old manor-house. A local boy, Roly, becomes his guide through a lonely and mysterious landscape of dunes and creeks and sea. These and the derelict mansion begin to haunt Matthew's imagination and he gradually senses a shadow of fear lurking beneath his deepening friendship with Roly. The truth proves to be stranger than an...

The holiday would be an adventure, sleeping away from home for the first time in strange surroundings, a first step into the unknown. ¿Matthew has come with his mother to the north Norfolk coast where she has rented a cottage in the grounds of an abandoned old manor-house. A local boy, Roly, becomes his guide through a lonely and mysterious landscape of dunes and creeks and sea. These and the derelict mansion begin to haunt Matthew's imaginati...

Declining to come of age in an England locked in austerity and sexual repression, John Francis Lane moves to Paris, meets Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf and embarks on a lifelong feasting on the best that the art world can offer. He devours landmark works by Maria Callas and Luchino Visconti, Eduardo De Filippo, Franco Zeffirelli, Dario Fo. He moves to Rome when Hollywood arrives to make Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday and Elizabeth Taylor...

Raymond Rush from Prescot, St Helens, was the only man from his Company who landed at D-Day and who fought the Third Reich all the way back to Germany. The rest of the 600 men who landed with him on Sword Beach were wiped out. They were front-line soldiers whose duty was to go in first and clear the way. The heroism of these working-class volunteers from the South Lancs regiment never made it into the history books, because no one was alive to...