Seen through the eyes of 13 year-old Nicky, this novel tells of running away and growing up. Issues like homelessness, poverty, family break-up and teenage crime are dealt with in a sensitive, yet often humorous way.

Cascades - "Homebird" (Collins Cascades)

Education & Teaching

Blacker, Terence

Schools & Teaching

HarperCollins, Publishers

Houdini

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Secret Policemans Third Ball

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Pan/Macmillan

In a dishevelled west London flat the body of a young man lies crumpled, the victim of a suicide.  In a stylish family home less than a mile away is a writer: stranded in mid-life, his one triumph behind him, his family slipping away from him, all he has to hold on to is his self-belief that one day the world will recognise his talents.  From these two seemingly unrelated elements, Terence Blacker creates a magnificently compulsive novel of ego, envy, self-deception and, ultimately, self-destruction. Gregory Keays is a man with a wonderful future behind him.  A dazzlingly brilliant first work has led to a series of false starts, wrong turnings and critical cold shoulders.  Reduced to compiling a book of literary lists and stuck in the mire of his latest fiction, Insignificance, Gregory's life turns around when he takes under his wing Peter Gibson, a promising student at the night school where he teaches creative writing. When Gibson kills himself following an argument with his mentor, Gregory pays him the highest compliment - he appropriates his work and passes it off as his own...But when Gregory realises that somebody else may know of the existence of the work, he has to decide just how far he is prepared to go for success. And when he calls in Brian McWilliam, ex-villain turned literary star for a spot of freelance work in his old game, it can only lead to one frightening conclusion. A towering literary achievement and a novel of compulsive readability, Kill Your Darlings vividly imagines the terrifying outcome of one man's Faustian pact with the demon of success.

Kill Your Darlings

Literature & Fiction

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. Corroded with envy, Gregory watches as his contemporaries produce better work and live happier lives while he teaches community college composition classes and compiles books about other books.  One day, Gregory is convinced, the world will recognize his talents.  In the meantime, his marriage to a new-age feng shui artist has become cold and distant, and his relationship with his reclusive teen-age son is in free-fall.  But when a brilliant student enters his life, Gregory is offered one last, glorious chance to save his career.Soon, however, Gregory's Faustian pact with success unravels around him, and he must turn to darker, more duplicitous means to secure his fame. Set in the dangerous world where real life and literary ambition collide, Kill Your Darlings is an unforgettable novel of ego and delusion, villainy and the betrayal of love.

Kill Your Darlings: A Novel

Contemporary

St.Martin's Press

Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. But when an extraordinary student enters his life, Gregory is offered one last, glorious chance to save his career. Soon, however, Gregory’s Faustian pact with success unravels around him, and he must turn to darker, more duplicitous means to secure his fame. Set in the dangerous world where real life and literary ambition collide, Kill Your Darlings is an unforgettable novel of ego and delusion, villainy and the betrayal of love.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Boy2Girl

<p>Matthew's American cousin, Sam, has come to London to live with the family. Sam is a charismatic, funny kid, but can he be trusted to be a reliable friend? Matthew and his "mates" decide that Sam must undertake a challenge in order to prove himself: He must start off his new year at the school posing as a girl. It turns out that Sam makes a great girl. He fools everyone at Bradbury Hill School, stepping over lines and blurring boundaries of all sorts. And the longer the prank goes on, the more outlandish the repercussions.</p>

Children's Books

Square Fish

Ms Wiz manages to wangle herself a job at the hospital under the alias of Dr Wisdom and suddenly, all sorts of strange things start to happen. Other books by Blacker include "If I Could Work", "Henry and the Frights" and "Here's Houdini".

In Stitches with Mis Wiz (Young Piper)

Homebird

Nicky Morrison had led a quiet life until the age of 14 when he is sent away to boarding school. At first, when he runs away from school, it is to help save his parents' marriage. But then, trapped in a squat with a teenage burglar, events take a more sinister turn.

Macmillan Children`s Books

Ms Wiz Loves Dracula (No 9) (Ms Wiz)

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Blacker, Terence. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Blacker, Terence

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Blacker, Terence. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Cascades - "Homebird" (Collins Cascades)

Houdini

Secret Policemans Third Ball

Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings: A Novel

Kill Your Darlings: A Novel

Boy2Girl

In Stitches with Mis Wiz (Young Piper)

Homebird

Ms Wiz Loves Dracula (No 9) (Ms Wiz)