Steve is de auteur van Blood Donors en een performance dichter die heeft opgetreden op grote festivals en locaties. Zijn tweede jeugdroman biedt een grimmige, geestige modernisering van een klassiek verhaal, geïnspireerd door zijn residentie ter gelegenheid van Dickens' tweehonderdste verjaardag. Momenteel ontwikkelt hij een werk dat wordt ondersteund door de Arts Council en treedt hij op als vaste schrijver in een voetbalstadion.
A group of undocumented children with letters for names, are stuck living in a refugee camp, with stories to tell but no papers to prove them. As they try to forge a new family amongst themselves, they also long to keep memories of their old identities alive. Will they be heard and believed? And what will happen to them if they aren't? An astonishing piece of writing that will enchant and intrigue children; perfectly pitched at a 9+ readership.
For fans of Benjamin Zephaniah, Kevin Brooks and Melvin Burgess: Like being blasted in the face with a water cannon - absolutely vivid-Guardian Children's Books Site.
BAD BLOOD. BAD DRUGS. BAD BUGS. WELCOME TO THE FINGER. A Splatterfest with a Social Conscience from radical new voice in teen fiction, Steve Tasane.Peoples keep dyin' in the finger, the scuzzie old tower block where they put us antisociable families. Authorities say it dirty smack going round, but them bodies ain't all users ... an' they look like they die screamin'. Marshall O'Connor the First lives in the Finger with his mum and li'l bro. His dad's in prison, school kicked him out, and the bedbugs are drivin' him crazy. True, Marsh got himself some issues. But it ain't the drugs that peoples should be worryin' about, 'cos them bloodsuckin' bugs have grown some, and they ready for a bigger feed...