B R Collins
B. R. Collins was born in 1981 and lives in Kent. She studied English at Kings College, Cambridge, then trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
She is the author of several novels for young adults. Her first book, The Traitor Game, won the 2009 Branford Boase Award and her second, A Trick of the Dark (2009), was shortlisted for the Coventry Inspiration Prize.
Books
Gamerunner
Author: B. R. Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 12+
Collins’ fourth teen novel is dark, intense and disturbingly prophetic
The Broken Road
Author: B R Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Interest age: 11-12
Reading age: 9+
Celebrating the 800th centenary of the Children's Crusade, The Broken Road imagines the story of a group of young people to Jerusalem to regain the city from the Saracens for the Christianity, which took place in the 13th century.
The Traitor Game
Author: B R Collins Illustrator: Peter Bailey
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 9+
Set in two worlds, both real and fantasy, this intelligent and moving story of friendship, fear, misunderstanding and forgiveness, was awarded the Branford Boase Award.