> Skip to content
Play sample
  • Published: 3 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141350875
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 300

Half Bad




A breathtaking debut novel about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. Coming soon to Netflix as The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself.

In a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both?

Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch.

Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan must find a way to unlock his full powers before his seventeenth birthday, or face madness and death.

His one hope lies with the sinister Blood witch Mercury. But Mercury's help always comes at a price - one Nathan may not be able to pay . . .

Now a major new Netflix series entitled The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself.
'Highly entertaining and dangerously addictive' - TIME

  • Published: 3 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141350875
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 300

About the author

Sally Green

Sally Green lives in north-west England with her husband and son. She has had various jobs and even a profession but in 2010 she discovered a love of writing and now just can't stop. She used to keep chickens, makes decent jam, doesn't mind ironing, loves to walk in Wales even when it's raining, and will probably never jog again. She really ought to drink less coffee. Half Bad is her first novel.

Also by Sally Green

See all