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Sutcliffe William

    9 maart 1971

    William Sutcliffe staat bekend om zijn scherpe verkenningen van de adolescentie en complexe relaties. Zijn romans duiken vaak in de morele dilemma's en identiteitszoektochten van jonge mensen, waarbij hij de kwetsbaarheid van de menselijke natuur onderzoekt met een scherp oog voor detail en ironische humor. Sutcliffe's stijl is direct en boeiend, waardoor lezers worden meegezogen in de innerlijke werelden van de personages. Zijn werk resoneert door authentiek de uitdagingen en verwarringen van de overgang naar volwassenheid vast te leggen.

    Sutcliffe William
    Are you experienced?
    The Gifted, the Talented and Me
    The Wall
    Bad influence
    Whatever Makes You Happy
    The Summer We Turned Green
    • The Summer We Turned Green

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      3,9(161)Tarief

      Shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2023! A fresh, funny, heartfelt look at this generation's must-win battle: one earth, one chance. It's the summer holidays, and thirteen-year-old Luke's life has been turned upside down. First his older sister Rose moved 'across the road', where a community of climate rebels is protesting the planned airport expansion. Then his dad followed her. Dad only went to get Rose back, but now he's out there building totem poles, wearing sandals and drinking mead (whatever that is) with the best of them... Can Luke save his family when all they want to do is save the planet? ________________________ 'Hilarious, acutely observed and deeply felt, Sutcliffe's new novel is part biting satire on nimbyism and adult complacency, part impassioned call: take action now, before it's too late.' GUARDIAN 'This is the perfect book to inspire action against the climate crisis and to lift your spirits.' SCOTSMAN 'A heartfelt, well-observed, gripping family drama, as well as a call to arms.' SUNDAY TIMES Children's Book of the Week

      The Summer We Turned Green
    • Matt works for a lads mag and dates girls half his age. Paul is an old hand at lying and evasion to keep his life choices a secret from his mother. Daniel spends his Saturday nights alone in his flat reading novels. Their mothers arrive, without warning, to stay with their sons for one week intent on getting them back onto the right path

      Whatever Makes You Happy
    • Ben and Olly are best friends, and it's Ben who tells the story of what happened that autumn, starting right at the end of the summer holidays: how Carl moved into the street and everything changed forever.

      Bad influence
    • The Wall

      • 291bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen
      3,7(106)Tarief

      A powerful, searing story of a divided city - where one boy strays on to the wrong side of the wall, and finds his life changed for ever . . .

      The Wall
    • The Gifted, the Talented and Me

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,7(664)Tarief

      SUNDAY TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 Laugh-out-loud funny and instantly recognisable - not since The Inbetweeners has a coming of age story been so irreverent and relatable. Fifteen-year-old Sam is not a famous vlogger, he's never gone viral, and he doesn't want to be the Next Big Thing. In fact he's ordinary and proud of it. None of which was a problem until Dad got rich and Mum made the whole family move to London. Now Sam's off to the North London Academy for the Gifted and Talented, where everyone's busy planning Hollywood domination or starting alt-metal psychedelica crossover bands. Sam knows he'll never belong, even if he wanted to. And that's before he ends up on stage wearing nothing but a fur onesie ... A brilliantly funny look at fitting in, falling out and staying true to your own averageness. 'Dangerously funny ... To the parent, every line rings true -- this is a writer with real live teenagers and he is especially good on the ups and downs of sibling relations and young love. Sutcliffe is gifted and talented. I hope the prizes flood in. I'll be giving this to every teenager I know' - Alex O'Connell, The Times 'The Gifted, the Talented and Me made me cry with laughter. A comic novel like this is a gift to the nation' - Amanda Craig

      The Gifted, the Talented and Me
    • Dave travels to India with Liz hoping to get her into bed. Liz travels with Dave wanting a companion for her voyage of self-discovery. This novel is a satire about backpackers.

      Are you experienced?
    • New Boy

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      3,5(407)Tarief

      Features a dark modern comedy about the hormonal angst of a Jewish lad growing up in north-west London's bagel belt.

      New Boy
    • NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RED TENTACLE AT THE KITSCHIES 2017 A gripping and powerfully relevant thriller set in a reimagined London where constant surveillance is the norm, We See Everything simmers with tension and emotion. From internationally bestselling author William Sutcliffe, this is perfect for fans of Patrick Ness and Malorie Blackman. Lex lives on The Strip - the overcrowded, closed-off, bombed-out shell of London. He's used to the watchful enemy drones that buzz in the air above him. Alan's talent as a gamer has landed him the job of his dreams. At a military base in a secret location, he is about to start work as a drone pilot. These two young men will never meet, but their lives are destined to collide. Because Alan has just been assigned a high-profile target. Alan knows him only as #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.

      We See Everything
    • The love hexagon

      • 289bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen
      3,1(31)Tarief

      What happens to friends and lovers when sex gets in the way? Six twentysomethings confront their feelings, and each other, in their quest for happy-ever-after romance.

      The love hexagon
    • In a future London, Concentr8 is a prescription drug intended to help kids with ADD. Soon every troubled teen is on it. It makes sense, doesn't it? Keep the undesirable elements in line. Keep people like us safe from people like them. What's good for society is good for everyone. Troy, Femi, Lee, Karen and Blaze have been taking Concentr8 as long as they can remember. They're not exactly a gang, but Blaze is their leader, and Troy has always been his quiet, watchful sidekick - the only one Blaze really trusts. They're not looking for trouble, but one hot summer day, when riots break out across the city, they find it.What makes five kids pick a man seemingly at random - a nobody, he works in the housing department, doesn't even have a good phone - hold a knife to his side, take him to a warehouse and chain him to a radiator? They've got a hostage, but don't really know what they want, or why they've done it. And across the course of six tense days, with a journalist, a floppy-haired mayor, a police negotiator, and the sinister face of the pharmaceutical industry, they - and we - begin to understand why ...This is a book about what how we label young people. It's about how people get lost and failed by the system. It's about how politicians manipulate them. Gripping and controversial reading for fans of Malorie Blackman and Patrick Ness.

      Concentrate