Cancelled: Meet the author - Melvin Burgess
**UPDATE - Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled**
Suitable for 14 years and over
Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children’s literature. He has written many books including his controversial bestseller about heroin, Junk, which won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal.
His gripping new young adult thriller is The Hit which features a mind-blowing central idea: a craze for a euthanasia drug that gives you the best week of your life – before killing you … It’s the ultimate high. At the ultimate price …
Set in a super-austere near future, The Hit dramatises current teen dilemmas: money, social networking, family, friendship, drugs and fame. This is Melvin Burgess at his thought provoking best with a controversial, yet positive message about drug-taking.
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