John Boyne
(30/04/1971)
John Boyne was born in Dublin and studied English Literature at Trinity College. In 1995, he completed a postgraduate degree in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize. Boyne's first three novels are The Thief of Time (2000), The Congress of Rough Riders (2001) and Crippen (2004). Several of his children's stories have been televised or adapted for radio. Boyne's fourth novel, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2006), has become a worldwide bestseller translated into more than 38 languages. It won the Irish Book Awards as well as the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award and has been adapted for the cinema by director Mark Herman. Boyne's latest novels are Next of Kin, published in October 2006, and Mutiny on the Bounty (2008). John Boyne lives in Dublin and is currently writing his seventh novel. For more information about John Boyne, please visit www.johnboyne.com.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty is the first novel to explore all the events relating to the Bounty's voyage, from its long journey across the ocean to the crew's adventures on the island of Tahiti and the subsequent 48 day expedition towards Timor. A vivid recreation of the famous mutiny, the story is packed with humour, violence and historical detail. Observed from the perspective of 14-year-old John Jacob Turnstile - a juvenile delinquent rescued from prison when the captain's valet is injured and a replacement is urgently needed - it presents a very different portrait of Captain Bligh and Mr Christian.
Finnish, Slovene
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Noah Barleywater Runs Away
Noah is running away from his problems the day he takes the untrodden path through the forest - or at least that's what he thinks. When he comes across a very unusual toyshop and meets the even more unusual toymaker, he's not sure what to expect. But the toymaker has a story to tell, a story full of adventure, wonder and broken promises. And Noah travels with him on a journey that will change his life for ever.
This thought-povoking fable is beautifully illustrated by award-winning author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers.
Slovak
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The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
Nine year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Slovenian, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Vietnamese
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The House of Special Purpose
Russia, 1915: At the age of 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin’s bullet intended for the heart of a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family. He is instantly proclaimed a hero. Before the week is out, his life as the son of a peasant farmer is changed forever when he is escorted to St Petersburg to take up his new position - as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which led to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is a witness and participant in a drama which will echo down the century.
Sixty five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies dying in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. Their marriage, while tender, has been marked by tragedy, the loss of loved ones, and experiences of exile that neither can forget. Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, the novel moves from revolutionary St Petersburg to Paris after the First World War, and from London during the Blitz to the eastern coast of Finland during the 1980s, before returning to a quiet hospital bed where Georgy and Zoya’s story must finally be resolved.
Brazilian Portuguese
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