Behind the Walls: A City Besieged
No. of pages 256
Published: 2015
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Derry, 1689.
An anonymous letter is read out saying that every last Protestant man,
woman and child is to be murdered. Panic takes hold. Two teenage boys, Daniel and Robert Sherrard, help close the city gates against the approaching Catholic army.
The siege has begun.
Bombs rain down. Behind the walls, tensions grow day by day. Trapped, the people are injured, dying, starving. But there is no going back ...
Daniel and Robert are drawn into a fight to the end.
'this fantastically written book will hook you from the start... this is historical fiction at its best.' The Guardian on City of Fate
This book has been graded for interest at 10+ years.
There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by O'Brien Press Ltd .
Tallaght-born Nicola Pierce is a writer, living in Drogheda. Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children's Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O'Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.