The stories of two youngsters drawn into crime. Nikki, in the present day, and Nick, living in the middle of the nineteenth century. The parallels between their circumstances, and the reactions of society show that the reasons for and the reactions to petty crime have barely changed.
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
