A fast-paced and tense real life thriller about gun crime in an inner city gangland, by prize-winning author, Alan Gibbons.
Alan Gibbons is a full-time writer and a visiting speaker and lecturer at schools, colleges and literary events nationwide, including the major book festivals: Edinburgh, Northern Children's Book Festival, Swansea, Cheltenham, Sheffield and Salford. Alan has recently embarked on a high-profile, nationwide campaign to champion libraries and librarianship and to reevaluate government commitment to educational spending. He lives in Liverpool with his wife and four children.
The characters in this moving and fast-paced story are real and the
dilemmas they face believable. There are no easy solutions here,
but courage and integrity shine through.
*Carousel*
Adventurous, breath-taking and realistic
*Books For Keeps*
Fast-paced and straight-talking, Alan Gibbons' writing always does
justice to the moral complexities of the problems it sets out to
explore
*Book Trust*
Gibbons has a distinctive short, sharp writing style and his style
helps to increase the tension as the book hurtles towards its tense
and gripping conclusion.
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Fast-moving and tense ... A thriller that provides an insight into
street violence while never glamorising it
*School Librarian*
Raining Fire by @mygibbo is a cracking read.Paints pretty bleak
snapshot of life in North West yet still tells a great story
@the_orionstar
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...Alan Gibbons' simple but sharp and effective writing style
really ratchets up the tension, and the constant, ominous presence
of the gun comes to the fore.
*thebookbag.co.uk*
I believe Alan's books fulfill an important role for boy readers.
Crammed with boy stuff, and written by someone with the right ideas
about things.
*BOOKWITCH BLOG*
Fast-paced courageous and straight-talking, Alan Gibbons' writing
always does justice to the moral complexities of the problems it
sets out to explore.
*BOOK TRUST*
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