An Act of Love
by Alan Gibbons
As children, Chris and Imran were blood brothers. When racists riot in their neighbourhood, Imran’s brother Rafiq is jailed for chucking a petrol-bomb while Chris’s parents decide to move house. As the boys grow apart, Chris takes up boxing and joins the Army while Imran enrols in a radical sect. Years later, Chris is about to be decorated for bravery in Afghanistan when a text from Imran warns of a bomb. Is this a wind-up or the terrifying truth? The blood brothers finally realise that Imran’s mum spoke the truth when she said that Islam was an act of love, not anger.
A hard-hitting, contemporary novel exploring issues of religion, ethnicity, friendship, family, duty and democracy from two different perspectives.
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
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Alan Gibbons
Alan Gibbons has been writing children's books for 17 years. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2000 'The book I couldn't put down' for his best-selling book Shadow of the Minotaur. He has also been shortlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal and twice for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He has won the Catalyst Award, the Leicester Book of the Year, the Angus Book of the Year, the Stockport Book Award and the Salford Librarians' Special Award. His books have been published in languages including Japanese, German, Italian, French, Thai, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Swedish.
Alan was a teacher for 16 years. He is now is a full-time writer and independent educational consultant and a campaigner for library services. He lives in Liverpool.
http://www.alangibbons.com/
Alan Gibbons Photo: Barrington Stoke
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