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Winner of the 2004 CILIP Carnegie Medal | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month March 2019
When a bag stuffed full of money falls out of a train and into their camp, Damian and Anthony are suddenly rich. Very, very rich, to be precise. But, there is a problem. They only have a few days in which to spend the money. When the Euro arrives, it’ll be worthless. A thrilling story about the real value of money but Millions is more than an adventure as the boys have recently lost their mother and their search for happiness is tinged with the sadness that, however much money they have, they’ll never be able bring her back
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Millions Synopsis
Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions is the tale of a not-so-great train robbery. Two brothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma - how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking - the bungling bank robbers are closing in too. Pizzas or World Peace - what would you choose?
This edition features fantastic cover artwork from the incredible Steven Lenton.
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9781529008760 |
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21st February 2019 |
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce |
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Steven Lenton |
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Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
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Paperback |
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272 pages |
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Press Reviews
Frank Cottrell-Boyce Press Reviews
Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity. - Sunday Times
Pure gold - Scotsman
Deliciously funny - Guardian
Damian's voice leaps off the page and into your heart. Millions is fresh, funny, touching and wise. - The Times
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About Frank Cottrell-Boyce
A World Book Day Author 2019
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an accomplished, successful and award-winning author and screenwriter. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and Millions, his debut children's novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2004.
Millions was was later turned into a film by Danny Boyle and it features in the Book Trust’s 100 Best Books List for 9-11 year olds.
Frank is also a successful writer of film scripts and was the official scriptwriter for the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, playing an important role devising the ceremony with Danny Boyle. He is also a judge for the BBC Radio 2 500 Words competition. You can read a great interview with Frank and one of his fellow judge, Francesca Simon here!
He has also created a fantastic trilogy, written with his trademark wit, warmth and sense of story, based upon Ian Fleming's novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, comprising Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon.
His novel The Unforgotten Coat won the 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
On winning the prize Frank Cottrell-Boyce said: “It would be amazing to win this award with any book I'd written but it is a special joy to win it with The Unforgotten Coat, which started life not as a published book at all, but as a gift. Walker gave away thousands of copies in Liverpool - on buses, at ferry terminals, through schools, prisons and hospitals - to help promote the mighty Reader Organisation. We even had the book launch on a train. The photographs in the book, were created by my friends and neighbours - Carl Hunter and Claire Heaney. The story was based on a real incident in a school in Bootle. So everything about it comes from very close to home - even though it's a story about Xanadu!
“Being shortlisted for the Guardian Prize gives you a particularly warm glow because it is awarded by a panel of your fellow authors. Past winners include my childhood heroes - Alan Garner, Leon Garfield, Joan Aiken - and contemporary heroes like Mark Haddon, Geraldine McCaughrean and Meg Rosoff.”
He lives with his family in Liverpool.
You can find out a bit more about him and his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang triology at uk.chittyfliesagain.com
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Chosen as a recommended read by our Guest Editor, Geraldine McCaughrean, April 2021; Great plot, witty words... but the characters are the reason you’ll love and remember this. (Especially the saints.)
... or should I recommend Framed instead? ..It’s no good: I just can’t separate these two books – I refuse to! - they’re both as good as each other. The man’s a genius.
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Julia Eccleshare's Picks for March 2019:
Song of Spring by Hendrik Jonas
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Watership Down Gift Picture Storybook by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Grandpa Bert and the Ghost Snatchers by Malorie Blackman
