Midwinterblood
by Marcus Sedgwick
In seven stories that take place on the strange island of Blessed, two souls seek each other over a period of a thousand years. Beginning in the future, each story delves deeper into the past. It moves back through the present to the World War II, the 19th-century, the Viking era and finally to a time unknown. And in each story there is blood and doomed love and sacrifice. A young couple are ritually slain and a farmer saves the life of a man he dislikes. A pagan king offers up his life to save his people and a brother to save his sister from a vampire.
The winner of the 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize has created a dark, compelling novel, skilfully structured and beautifully-written
Publisher: Indigo
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Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick began to write seriously in 1994, and his first book, Floodland, was published by Orion in 2000, and won the Branford-Boase award for best debut children's novel. Witch Hill followed in 2001, and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Independent Reading Association award and the Portsmouth Book Award. In 2002 The Dark Horse was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, The Carnegie Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award.
The Book of Dead Days was nominated for the Guardian Award, and was shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
In his spare time, Marcus is a drummer and at the moment play’s the part of Basil Exposition from behind the kit in The International Band of Mystery, an Austin Powers tribute band.
Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. Marcus lives in Cambridge and has a young daughter, Alice.
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Marcus Sedgwick
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