Bog Child (2008)
Posted on: 06/09/11 BY admin
‘Bog Child is a radiant work, written by a novelist of subtle and complex literary gifts at the height of her powers.’ The Guardian
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks as if she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him – his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into smuggling mysterious packages across the border – a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.
Bog Child is published in the UK and the US by David Fickling Books.Oxford University Press have published an ’Oxford Modern Playscript’ edition, and also an educational edition for schools in their ‘Roller Coasters’ series.
Rights Enquiries
Hilary Delamere at The Agency (London) Ltd handles all the rights in Siobhan’s books please contact her at : hd-office@theagency.co.uk
Foreign Editions:
Bog Child has been published in the following translations:
French- Gallimard Jeunesse
German- Carlsen Verlag
Dutch- Unieboek
Japanese- Goblin Shobo
Korean- Thinking and Feeling Publishing
Italian- Uovonero Edizioni
Hungarian- Peopleteam Publishing
Slovenian- Zala
Awards
Winner of the Carnegie Award 2009
Winner of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2009
Shortlisted for the Kernow Youth Book Award 2010
Winner of the CBI Bisto Book of the Year Award 2009
Winner of The Edgar Allen Poe Awards 2009
Winner of the US Cooperative Children’s Book Centre’s annual best-of-the-year list
Winner of the 2009 UKLA Children’s Book Award
Shortlisted for The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2008
Shortlisted for the Staffordshire Young Teen Fiction Book Award 2009
Shortlisted for the Kernow Youth Book Award 2010
Shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Decade 2010
Longlisted for the Catalyst Book Award 2009
Longlisted for the Manchester Book Award 2009
A 2008 Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Pick
A 2008 Amazon Top 10 Editors’ Pick – Teen Category
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2008
A 2008 Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Booklist starred review
Kirkus Reviews starred review
Publishers Weekly starred review
School Library Journal starred review