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Melvin Burgess

Melvin Burgess was brought up in Sussex and Berkshire.  As a child, his reading included The Wind in the Willows and Gerald Durrell's animal stories. He went on to enjoy The Hobbit and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books. A generally unconfident student, he became interested in writing when he was twelve and an English teacher praised one of his stories  - "it was about the first time I'd ever done anything that got an A. I was so pleased I never stopped."  After leaving school, Melvin moved to Bristol  where he worked on occasional jobs, mainly in the building industry, and was often unemployed.  He started writing in his twenties and wrote on and off for the next fifteen years before The Cry of the Wolf was published. He moved to London in 1983 and began a small business marbling fabrics for the fashion industry. He now lives in Manchester and writes full-time.

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Nicholas Dane
Nicholas Dane
Melvin Burgess
Carnegie-prize winning author, Melvin Burgess, has written a long-awaited new novel.  This compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s care home is a powerful study of a particularly highly charged and distressing subject and one that is...
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Sara's Face
Sara's Face
Melvin Burgess
As ever, Melvin Burgess makes readers think. Sara signs up for a face transplant but is it her who wants it or, is she being pushed into doing it against her will by the scarred pop-star who wants her face?...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2008
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Bloodsong
Bloodsong
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is justly regarded as the Godfather of Young Adult fiction in the UK. He doesn’t disappoint with this work of mind-bending imagination and power, in which myth, magic and science fiction are mixed with the basest and best...
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Sara's Face
Sara's Face
Melvin Burgess
This is young adult fiction at its challenging and thrilling best - and Melvin Burgess has yet again struck a chord with a teenager’s world.  The issue of cosmetic surgery is brought sharply into focus and in such a way that the...
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Bloodsong
Bloodsong
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is justly regarded as the Godfather of Young Adult fiction in the UK. He doesn’t disappoint with this work of mind-bending imagination and power, in which myth, magic and science fiction are mixed with the basest and best...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2005
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Junk
Junk
Melvin Burgess
Carnegie winner in 1996. When it was published in 1996 it created a Storm of Protest - especially from those who didn't bother to read it. The book, however, is credible, honest, realistic, moving and sympathetic - not...
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Books by Melvin Burgess

Nicholas Dane
Nicholas Dane
Melvin Burgess
When Nick's mother dies suddenly, the 14 year old is sent straight into a boys' home, where he finds institutional intimidation and violence keep order. Nick thinks life can't get any worse - but the professionally respected deputy head, Mr...
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Sara's Face
Sara's Face
Melvin Burgess
Sarah is going to have a face transplant. She has allowed herself to be drawn into the orbit of a ruthless pop-star. He is going to take her discarded face to cover his own scarred and damaged one. But, as...
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Bloodsong
Bloodsong
Melvin Burgess
Sigurd has a fabulous but frightening future predicted: even to start, he must leave everything he knows to go and fight a dragon, and from there descend into the Underworld. Sounds bad enough, but when you know that the dragon...
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Kite
Kite
Melvin Burgess
Burgess is a fine writer of dramatic narrative -The Observer
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/03/2005
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Highwayman
Highwayman
Melvin Burgess
In Tudor times the punishment for highway robbery was death. Young Will is bored hanging round his parent's inn and, being none too bright either, he decides to get involved in a plot to rob the local highway. He loves...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2002
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Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot
Melvin Burgess
Billy Elliot's not like his Dad. He doesn't want to learn boxing or be a miner. Instead, he is fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet and is determined to dance. Set at the time of the miner's strike,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2002
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