Kevin Brooks

It was the girl, of course. The girl from the station. The girl with the smile and the skin and the eyes... Joe is hooked from the moment he sees Candy. What is it that catches his eye? Is it her hair, her smile, or just the way she’s standing? When they chat over coffee there’s an instant attraction, but...

Finbar's quiet weekend is disrupted by the sudden appearance of a girl with a gun and a bag of cash. Who is she? And will Finbar's life ever be the same? A gritty, nail-biting thriller from Carnegie medalist Kevin Brooks. Finbar's fed up. He's back at his dad's house for the usual weekend visit of watching TV and eating chips,...

Carnegie Medal winner Keith Brooks returns with a poetic, darkly humorous and thoughtfully observed teen drama about disaffected youth and rebellion. When Dean first appears at school, Jack knows right away that there's something different about him. The two form a fast bond and dream of starting a band together, but underneath all the usual teenage posturing of drinking, drugs...

Carnegie Medalist Kevin Brooks crafts a brutally honest tale about adolescent boredom and destructive friendships in this gritty teen drama. Dumb Chocolate Eyes introduces us to Cassidy, a strange sort of kid, living in a house that's equally peculiar. An empty swimming pool, tunnels, trees, broken walls – and rats define his surroundings. When Cassidy decides to trap the rats,...

Two brothers take off in a stolen car with a mysterious girl in this tense road-movie story, shot through with playful hopefulness and all the hallmarks of a classic Kevin Brooks. For brothers Cole and Ruben it's another rainy morning in the badlands of East London, selling dodgy paperwork for even dodgier motors. But arriving in a grimy pub on...