‘Bog Child is a radiant work, written by a novelist of subtle and complex literary gifts at the height of her powers.’
Saturday Guardian
Bog Child (2008) Age 13+
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks as if she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him – his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into smuggling mysterious packages across the border – a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.
Bog Child is published in the UK and the US by David Fickling Books.Oxford University Press have published an ’Oxford Modern Playscript’ edition, and also an educational edition for schools in their ‘Roller Coasters’ series.
Translated Editions:
Bog Child has been published in the following territories:
France: Editions Gallimard Jeunesse
Germany: Carlsen Verlag gmbh
Holland: Unieboek
Japan: Goblin Shobo
Awards
Winner of the Carnegie Award 2009
Winner of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2009
Shortlisted for the Kernow Youth Book Award 2010
John Boyne chose Bog Child as one of his recommended reads on RTE Radio 1’s Marian Finucane Show on 25.04.09
Winner of the CBI Bisto Book of the Year Award 2009
Winner of The Edgar Allen Poe Awards 2009
Winner of the US Cooperative Children’s Book Centre’s annual best-of-the-year list
John Boyne chose Bog Child as one of his recommended reads on RTE Radio 1’s Marian Finucane Show on 25.04.09
Shortlisted for The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2008
Winner of the 2009 UKLA Children’s Book Award
Longlisted for the 2009 Manchester Book Award
A 2008 Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Pick
A 2008 Amazon Top 10 Editors’ Pick – Teen Category
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2008
A 2008 Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Booklist starred review
Kirkus Reviews starred review
Publishers Weekly starred review
School Library Journal starred review
Shortlisted for the 2009 Staffordshire Young Teen Fiction Book Award Longlisted for the 2010 Catalyst Book Award
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