Authors: Claire McFall
Black Cairn Point (20 page)
Claire McFall is a writer and English teacher who lives and works in the Scottish Borders. Her first book,
Ferryman
, is a love story which retells the ancient Greek myth of Charon, the ferryman of Hades who transported souls to the Underworld.
Ferryman
was shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards and the Grampian Children’s Book Awards, longlisted for the Branford Boase Award and the UKLA (UK Literary Association) Book Awards, as well as being nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Her second novel,
Bombmaker,
is a YA dystopian thriller in which the main character Lizzie struggles to survive in a London dominated by gangs and plagued by terrorism.
You can find out more about Claire at
www.clairemcfall.co.uk
and on Twitter:
@mcfall_claire
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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Hot Key Books
Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London EC1V 0AT
Text copyright © Claire McFall 2015
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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978-1-4714-0486-3
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