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This is the audio CD version of the novel The Penalty from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully told and the author’s passion for football shines through in the writing. If you’re football mad or want to be a journalist, don’t look further than this book/CD for inspiration.
This is the thrilling sequel to the award-winning Keeper. As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage football prodigy El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without trace. Paul Faustino, South America's top sports journalist, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery. As a story of corruption and murder unfolds, he is forced to confront a bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult.
ISBN: 9781406310344
Publication date: 05/05/2008
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Format: Cd-audio
| ISBN: | 9781406310344 |
| Publication date: | 5th May 2008 |
| Author: | Mal Peet |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Cd-audio |
| Pagination: | 6 pages |
| Suitable for: | 11+ readers, 13+ readers |
Mal Peet (June 1947 – 2 March 2015), winner of the Nestle Bronze Medal Award and the Branford Boase Award grew up in North Norfolk, and studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. Later he moved to south-west England and worked at a variety of jobs before turning full-time to writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. With his wife, Elspeth Graham, he wrote and illustrated many educational picture books for young children, and his cartoons appeared in a number of magazines. He and Elspeth lived in Exmouth, Devon. Tamar won the Carnegie Medal and is a multi-layered tale of ...
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