Blood Donors by Steve Tasane

Blood Donors by Steve Tasane

BAD BLOOD. BAD DRUGS. BAD BUGS. WELCOME TO THE FINGER. A Splatterfest with a Social Conscience from radical new voice in teen fiction, Steve Tasane. Peoples keep dyin' in the finger, the scuzzie old tower block where they put us antisociable families. Authorities say it dirty smack going round, but them bodies ain't all users ... an' they look like they die screamin'. Marshall O’Connor the First lives in the Finger with his mum and li’l bro. His dad’s in prison, school kicked him out, and the bedbugs are drivin’ him crazy. True, Marsh got himself some issues. But it ain’t the drugs that peoples should be worryin’ about, ’cos them bloodsuckin’ bugs have grown some, and they ready for a bigger feed…

Blood Donors does something almost impossible - it combines an utterly convincing setting and all-too-human characters with a story of nightmarish intensityThe language hums with energy and the pace is relentless. -- Anthony McGowan A confident debut. The story succeeds in making the skin crawl and the flesh creep whilst also having more serious undertones around the nature of social and class prejudice. -- Jake Hope Books For Keeps A fast paces excitement-packed book ... reminding me somewhat of John Wyndham's 1951 classic The Day of the Triffids, this is a thoroughly enjoyable read The School Librarian

Steve Tasane is a writer and performance poet who "rap-funks for everyone from primary schools to May Day anarchists". He has performed at Glastonbury, been writer in residence at the V&A Museum of Childhood, been broadcast on TV and radio, and done a writing residency for Dickens 2012 in Southampton. Blood Donors is his first novel for teens. Steve lives in Hastings, East Sussex. For more about the book see stevetasane.wordpress.com.

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ISBN 13	9781406344059
ISBN 10	1406344052
Title	Blood Donors
Author	Steve Tasane
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Walker Books Ltd
Year published	2014-01-01
Number of pages	256
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