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  • Published: 7 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9781849399227
  • Imprint: Andersen Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

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A collection of short stories about the afterlife by some of today's leading writers for teens: Keith Gray, Jonathan Stroud, Philip Ardagh, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Malorie Blackman, Sally Nicholls, Julie Bertagna and Gillian Philip

Heaven? Hell? Purgatory? Reincarnation? Ghosts? Buried? Nothing . . .?

Some of today's leading writers for teens have come together to ask, what happens after you die?
Will you go out with a bang? Or find a peace that only you can see?
Is heaven spending eternity reliving your happiest memories? Or is your future in someone else's thoughts?
Could it even be that you leave a part of yourself behind?

  • Published: 7 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9781849399227
  • Imprint: Andersen Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

Keith Gray

Keith was born and brought up in Grimsby and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. When he received 0% for his accountancy exams he decided to pursue his dream.

Since then, he has gone on to win the Angus Book Award and the silver medal in the Smarties Prize. He has twice been shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booktrust Teen Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Rave reviews about his writing have appeared in every broadsheet. Keith was a judge for the Blue Peter Book Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Bookstrust Teen Prize and reviews regularly for the Guardian.

Keith is now a full-time writer living in Edinburgh.

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Praise for Next

Thought-provoking as well as entertaining…they are a very striking publication.

The School Librarian

This excellent collection provokes, reassures and above all surprises.

Books for Keeps

I thought 'this is the best one' for each and every story

Bookwitch

These stories are thought-provoking as well as entertaining . . . A very striking publication that shows how unchangeably fascinating its subject matter is.

The School Librarian

Highly original and thought provoking stories

Carousel

Thought-provoking . . . humorous and moving.

Children's Books Ireland, Recommended Reads