Bearmouth

Liz Hyder author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pushkin Children's Books

Published:10th Oct '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Bearmouth cover

Winner of the Older Fiction category of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and of the Branford Boase Award

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'An extraordinary dystopian novel... compelling and original' Sunday Times, Book of the Year

'One of the most vivid, tough, bold and gripping books I've read in a long time' Katherine Rundell, author of Impossible Creatures

'A dazzling fable of oppression and hope' Financial Times, Books of the Year

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Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labour, the sunlit world above the mine a distant memory. Reward will come in the next life with the benevolence of the Mayker.

Newt accepts everything - that is, until the mysterious Devlin arrives. Suddenly, Newt starts to look at Bearmouth with a fresh perspective, questioning the system, and setting in motion a chain of events that could destroy their entire world.

'An extraordinary dystopian novel... compelling and original' - Sunday Times, Book of the Year

'One of the most vivid, tough, bold and gripping books I've read in a long time - and it's utterly original, the kind of story to carry you away' - Katherine Rundell, author of The Good Thieves

'Like nothing I have read before... hand-in-mouth gripping... [Hyder] will become a household name and her books a curriculum staple' - The Times, Children's Book of the Month

'One of the most ambitious and darkly brilliant YA books I've read. It's provocative, tender, claustrophobic and epic. It blew my mind' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink & Stars

'Bearmouth is devastating, genre breaking, a book in which the very language changes as the plot progresses. A Jonathan Livingstone Seagull for today. I can't wait to see what Hyder does next, I will go wherever she takes me' - Daisy Johnson

ISBN: 9781782695370

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

320 pages