Dogs of the Deadlands

Anthony McGowan is one of the most widely acclaimed young adult and children's authors in the UK. His books have won numerous major awards. In 2020, he was awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal for Lark. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour. His YA novel The Knife That Killed Me was made into a critically-lauded film in 2014. Anthony lives in London, with his wife, two children and dog.

Title: Dogs of the Deadlands

Author: McGowan, Anthony

ISBN: 9780861542741

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Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Publication Date: 2022-09-01

Number of Pages: 320

Weight: 0.4001 kg

'This book! It broke my heart and then splintered it back together again. Full of hope and love and wildness. Can't even describe the plot but it has dogs and wolves and it's set in the aftermath of Chernobyl. It's just MAGNIFICENT. Imagine Watership Down meets The Animals of Farthing Wood but fiercer.'

-- Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear

'Steeped in Richard Adams' Plague Dogs and Watership Down, yet wearing all the hallmarks of Barry Hines at his finest, Dogs of the Deadlands is a wonderful thing. It moved me and stayed with me for an awfully long time.'

-- Phil Earle, author of When the Sky Falls

'I was completely blown away by this brilliant, beautiful story. I was propelled back to reading Watership Down as an eight year old - this gave me that same feeling of having been indelibly changed by a story. It's a rare and special thing for a book to do.'

-- Catherine Bruton, author of No Ballet Shoes in Syria

'Raw, unflinching, and blisteringly well written, Dogs of the Deadlands is already certain to be one of my books of the year! Just WOW.'

-- A. M. Howell, author of The Garden of Lost Secrets

'A truly unforgettable tale of hope in the wilderness. This story feels classic, timeless. It will be read and read and read and loved by so many readers for a long time to come.'

-- Keith Gray, author of Ostrich Boys

'Dogs of the Deadlands is extraordinary - exciting, brutal, heartbreaking, it carries you along with every howl, every bite and every moment of joy. Wonderful!'

-- Alastair Chisholm, author of Orion Lost

'Beautifully written and emotionally devastating.'

-- Bookseller, Most Anticipated Children's & YA titles 2022

'This is a powerful novel about how people's lives can change in an instant, and how the animals affected by human disaster learn to survive... a tense, thought-provoking drama whose descriptions of animal life are reminiscent of Watership Down. Rock the Boat is publishing a sumptuous hardback edition.'

-- Charlotte Eyre * Bookseller, One to Watch *

'Loved Dogs of the Deadlands - swept along by the story - powerful telling of dogs' survival in the wilds against the backdrop of Chernobyl and the spaces humans left behind.'

-- Gill Lewis, author of A Street Dog Named Pup

Praise for Anthony McGowan:

'The Carnegie medal winner McGowan is superb at stories about children who do not have all the advantages.' Sunday Times

'McGowan's prose is beautiful in its brevity and devastating in its emotional impact.' Bookseller

'The animal portion of the story is the dominant one, and along with being full of vivid naturalistic details about food and setting, it lays out rich webs of nonanthropomorphic but recognizable family and pack dynamics, emotional attachments, and differences in character among wolves, dogs, and hybrids... A multilayered tale of loss and renewal with elements both topical and universal.'

-- Kirkus Reviews

'The dogs' behaviour is convincingly authentic... A phenomenal story of survival despite, and because of, the desolation of a modern nuclear fallout.'

-- Simon Barrett * Armadillo Magazine *