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Name: Black Wolf
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780143775409
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By Eileen Merriman

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The gripping sequel to Violet Black THE SECOND RIVETING BOOK IN THE FAST-PACED BLACK SPIRAL TRILOGY. Back from Germany and the assignment that went horribly wrong, Violet doesn't know who to trust— It's fortunate for me that the Foundation staff can't read my thoughts... If they... Read More

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The gripping sequel to Violet Black

THE SECOND RIVETING BOOK IN THE FAST-PACED BLACK SPIRAL TRILOGY.

Back from Germany and the assignment that went horribly wrong, Violet doesn't know who to trust—

It's fortunate for me that the Foundation staff can't read my thoughts... If they could read my thoughts, they'd never let me go. I'd be a liability, and I know what happens to liabilities.

Phoenix is equally adrift—

For an hour I will forget who I am, what I have done... But... I will wake with the heavy knowledge that I am the Black Wolf, never to be trusted, never to be loved—because the only people I've ever loved are either dead or hate my guts.

The only thing both of them know for sure is that they have to escape the Foundation's clutches...

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143775409

Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 August 2021

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 262g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Eileen Merriman's first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed. She has received huge critical praise, with one reviewer saying- 'Merriman is an instinctive storyteller with an innate sense of timing.' In addition to being a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Merriman was a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey and the UK and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy. In 2024, Merriman's compelling Catch a Falling Star, which depicts a 15-year-old spiralling into a mental health crisis, won both the New Zealand Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award and NZ Booklovers' Best Young Adult Book. Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third in the same award for three consecutive years previously. She works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.

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