The Book of Dead Days (24 page)

Marcus Sedgwick’s
Floodland
was hailed as a “dazzling debut” and won the Branford Boase Award for a best first novel.
Witch Hill
was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Sedgwick’s most recent book,
The Dark Horse,
was short-listed for the
Guardian
Award for Children’s Fiction and for the Carnegie Medal. Marcus Sedgwick has worked in children’s publishing in England for ten years; before that, he was a bookseller. In addition to writing, he does stone carvings, etchings and woodcuts. He lives in Sussex and has a young daughter, Alice.