Timesnatch [Hardcover]

Robert Swindells (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 26, 1994

Winner of the 1995 Earthworm Award (junior category). Set in the year 2039, a terrifying spiral of events follow a physicist's invention of a machine which can travel back in time, snatch any living thing, and bring it to the present. The author won the 1994 Carnegie Medal for "Stone Cold".

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Spellbinding... a stirring achievement' -- The Times Educational Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

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. 'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday (May 26, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385404107
• ISBN-13: 978-0385404105

More About the Author

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.
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