It is a book reminiscent of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) with just a hint of Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983). He lives in West Sussex.įloodland (2000), Marcus Sedgwick’s award winning debut novel, imagines environmental disaster from a child’s perspective. Marcus Sedgwick is also drummer in the Brighton-based band, Garrett. Printz Honor Award and Saint Death (2016).
Subsequent books include Dark Satanic Mills (2013) The Ghosts of Heaven (2015), shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and winner of the Michael L.
His 2010 book White Crow was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Blood Red, Snow White (2007), was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award. My Swordhand is Singing (2006), was shortlisted for several book awards and was winner of the 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize. The Book of Dead Days (2003) and its sequel, Dark Flight Down (2004), tell of the search of Boy, Willow and Valerian, and their capture by Emperor Frederick. The Dark Horse (2002), borrows its tone from Norse myth, and Cowards (2003) is about two men who refuse to fight in the first World War. His first novel, Floodland (2000), winner of the 2000 Branford Boase Book Award, tells the tale of Zoe, who lives on her own on an island once part of England, and his second book, Witch Hill (2001), is about Jamie, a boy whose house is destroyed by fire.
He has illustrated some of his own books, and also produces woodcuts and stone carvings. Marcus Sedgwick was born in 1968 in Kent, and has worked as a bookseller and inside children's publishing, becoming a writer for children in 1994, and well-known for the dark themes in his young adult fantasy books.
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