Black Rabbit Summer
  • Published: 23 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141319117
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $26.00

Black Rabbit Summer

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Black Rabbit Summer is part compelling murder mystery, part searing social critique from critically acclaimed author Kevin Brooks.

Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called.

'Listen, Pete . . . you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground . . . I thought we could all meet up . . . You know, for old times' sake.'

But, where there are old times, there are old tensions. And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives . . .

Teenage readers will find it impossible to tear themselves away from this dark, tense and gripping new novel from award-winning Kevin Brooks.
  • Published: 23 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141319117
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks has written nine children's novels and has won several awards including Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford Boase Award, Kingston Youth Book Award, North East Book Award, Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis Jury Prize, Buxtehude Bulle, Golden Bookworm. A Dance of Ghosts is the first of his adult novels. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Sue.

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter, Devon, and he studied in Birmingham and London. He has worked in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin is the award-winning author of eight novels and lives in North Yorkshire.


'Kevin Brooks just gets better and better, and given that he started off brilliant, that leaves one scratching around for superlatives' - Sunday Telegraph             .

'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' - Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now

'A masterly writer' - Mail on Sunday

Also by Kevin Brooks

The Bunker Diary
Wrapped in White
Until the Darkness Comes
Naked
A Dance of Ghosts
iBoy
Killing God
See all

Praise for Black Rabbit Summer

Praise for Kevin Brooks: 'Complex and involving, this is his [Brooks's] best book since the wonderful Lucas, and it deserves every success' – Bookseller (on Black Rabbit Summer) 'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' – Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now (on Being) 'Watch this guy, he's good' – Melvin Burgess, author of Junk (on Martyn Pig) '. . . you want to tell everyone how good it is' – Sunday Times (on Lucas)

Praise for Kevin Brooks: 'Complex and involving, this is his [Brooks's] best book since the wonderful Lucas, and it deserves every success' – Bookseller (on Black Rabbit Summer) 'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' – Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now (on Being) 'Watch this guy, he's good' – Melvin Burgess, author of Junk (on Martyn Pig) '. . . you want to tell everyone how good it is' – Sunday Times (on Lucas)