David Almond

David Almond's first novel for children, Skellig, won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal, and his second, Kit’s Wilderness, won the Smarties Award Silver Medal, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Guardian Award.  Almond lives with his family in Northumbria.

The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
Hodder Children’s

The Fire-Eaters is the deceptively simple tale of Bobby Burns, a boy growing up in a seaside community near Newcastle at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bobby’s world is fraught with change and uncertainty from the looming political crisis to the much closer terrors of starting a new school and witnessing his dad’s health falter.
David Almond's first novel for children, Skellig, won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal, and his second, Kit’s Wilderness, won the Smarties Award Silver Medal, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Guardian Award.