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Devil Darling Spy by Matt Killeen

March 11, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 11 Mar 2020

A sequel to Matt Killeen’s debut espionage thriller, Orphan Monster Spy, which was shortlisted for both the Branford Boase Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award, whose judges summarised the book as “A compelling, darkly thrilling debut – tense, cinematic and brilliant.”

Sarah is used to spying in the champagne-fuelled parties of Nazi Berlin. But her new mission is infinitely more deadly – tracking a deadly virus across bullet-torn Africa, to uncover the monster who would use it to create fifty million corpses. Her enemies think she is a terrified little girl. But she is a warrior set to burn them all.

Waterstones

Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, YA Tagged With: espionage, spy, thriller

Ask the Author – Elizabeth Wein / Independent Arts Blogs

July 26, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Q&A with YA author Elizabeth Wein

New York-born author Elizabeth Wein first made her name writing young adult novels set in Arthurian Britain and sixth-century Ethiopia. In 2012, she attracted universal acclaim with her World War II thriller, Code Name Verity, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Carnegie Medal. Praised for its clever use of unreliable narration, courageous but fallible characters, and meticulous attention to historical detail, the novel tells the story of two young women – a spy and a pilot – fighting to survive in enemy-occupied France. Her follow-up novel, Rose Under Fire, follows the misadventures of a young American pilot who finds herself confined in the infamous Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany.

via Children’s Book Blog: Ask the Author – Elizabeth Wein | Rebecca Davies | Independent Arts Blogs.

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