iBoy
  • Published: 12 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141326108
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

iBoy

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30 Aug 2010
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12 Aug 2010
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An electrifying novel from the Carnegie medal-winning Kevin Brooks. Now a Netflix movie starring Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones).

Before the attack, sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy.

But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain and it's having an extraordinary effect . . .

Because now Tom has powers. The ability to know and see more than he could ever imagine. And with incredible power comes knowledge - and a choice. Seek revenge on the violent gangs that rule his estate and assaulted his friend Lucy, or keep quiet?

Tom has control when everything else is out of control. But it's a dangerous price to pay. And the consequences are terrifying . . .
  • Published: 12 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141326108
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks has written nine children's novels and has won several awards including Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford Boase Award, Kingston Youth Book Award, North East Book Award, Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis Jury Prize, Buxtehude Bulle, Golden Bookworm. A Dance of Ghosts is the first of his adult novels. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Sue.

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter, Devon, and he studied in Birmingham and London. He has worked in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin is the award-winning author of eight novels and lives in North Yorkshire.


'Kevin Brooks just gets better and better, and given that he started off brilliant, that leaves one scratching around for superlatives' - Sunday Telegraph             .

'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' - Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now

'A masterly writer' - Mail on Sunday

Also by Kevin Brooks

The Bunker Diary
Wrapped in White
Until the Darkness Comes
Naked
A Dance of Ghosts
Killing God
Black Rabbit Summer
See all

Praise for iBoy

[Kevin Brooks'] pacey plots, masterly style and philosophical ideas in novels such as Martyn Pig, Killing God and Black Rabbit Summer have made him a cult among teens. This, though, is the big one. Its power as literature draws on a reality that few adult novelists have the stomach to address. It should be read by everyone.

Amanda Craig, The Times

Children's Book of the Month: Gripping, streetwise and profound.

Geraldine Brennan, The Observer

iBoy is a hugely readable revenge fantasy....confoundedly gripping.

Nick Tucker, Independent on Sunday
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