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Author: Melvin Burgess

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Price : $16.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780141315935
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Puffin Classics
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Publication date : 01 March 2003
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Melvin Burgess
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Dewey classification : 823.914
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Pages : 400
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This is an uncompromising, compelling and true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction. This tour de force by an acclaimed and provocative writer should become a definitive teenage novel on this subject.

Author description

Melvin Burgess was born in London in 1954. He began to train as a journalist but left after six months. He has had a variety of jobs as diverse as bricklaying and silk-screen printing. An Enterprise Allowance Scheme gave him the chance to develop his writing and his books for children are very highly regarded. Melvin lives in Lancashire.

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