A collection of gripping, thought-provoking short stories by eight award-winning UK young adult authors.From the perils of online chat rooms, doping in sport, racism and terrorism, to gender and self-esteem issues, love, life and death, Stories from The Edge isn't afraid to ask some big questions. Sometimes frightening, often funny, always brutally honest, these stories will take you to where the shadows are darkest and the ground drops away. The question is, are you prepared to look over the edge? Discussion Guides for exploring each of the stories are available as a free PDF download from the EDGE website. Go to: http://edgeauthors.blogspot.co.uk

 

There are 136 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2016 by Albury Books .

The books in this pack have been written by a range of different authors, all well known writers of teen fiction. They include Anne Rooney, Miriam Halahmy, Julia Clark ( the pseudonym of Fanie Viljoen), Rosemary Hayes, Jo Cotterill, Sue Purkiss, Barbara Catchpole, Tony Lee and Kathryn White. Bryony Pearce Bryony Pearce was born in 1976 and has two children. She completed an English Literature degree at Corpus Christi College Cambridge in 1998 and was a winner of the SCBWI anthology Undiscovered Voices in 2008. Visit her website at www. sara-grant. com, follow her on Twitter @AuthorSaraGrant and read her blog at http://saragrantauthor. blogspot. co. uk. She is also a contributor to http://edgeauthors. blogspot. co. uk. Savita Kalhan was born in India, but now lives in the UK and studied at the University of Wales. She has travelled extensively, and is keen on tennis and boxing as well as reading. She is married and has a ten-year-old son. Dave's short story THE FLOODLIGHT MAN was broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live, and an extract from FIFTEEN DAYS WITHOUT A HEAD was one of the winning stories featured in the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices Anthology in 2010. He is the author of the CHARLIE MERRICK series and WAITING FOR GONZO. Originally from Birmingham, Dave now lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and family, in a house full of books and records. Visit www. www. davecousins. net | @DaveCousins9000 Catalina has studied graphic design and children's book illustration in Milan and Cambridge. She is originally from Bogota, Colombia but now lives in the UK. Visit www. cataecheverri. com | @cataverri Katie Dale had her first poem 'The Fate of The School Hamster' published in The Cadbury's Book of Children's Poetry, aged 8 and hasn't stopped writing since. On graduating, she went travelling through South-East Asia - only to discover whilst in a Vietnam internet cafe that she was a winner of the SCBWI 2008 Undiscovered Voices competition. Paula Rawsthorne is an exciting new talent in YA fiction. A former social-worker, she writes with passion and authenticity about the issues facing young people today. The opening chapters of The Truth About Celia Frost were picked from 150 entries to be included in the 2010 SCBWI Undiscovered Voices Anthology. Author location: Nottingham Keren David is a journalist and YA star who has been shortlisted for The Bookseller's YA Book Prize, the UKLA award and the Branford Boase Award, and nominated five times for the Carnegie Prize.