Gillian Philip

 

CROSSING THE LINE 

Nick Geddes is the loneliest thug in school, but that’s not entirely his own fault. True, he should never have thrown in his lot with the homicidal Kev Naughton in the first place, but he's trying to live down his past.

It isn’t his fault his mother is a New Age hippy chick with a mortifying god-slot on local radio; as far as he knows it isn't him who drives his father to drink. Nick isn’t the one who hangs out shoplifting with an imaginary friend: that’s his deranged sister Allie.

Worst of all, the girl he loves hates him with a passion, and that's understandable. But it wasn't Nick who stabbed Orla Mahon's brother to death with a kitchen knife...  

from Bloomsbury
April 2009

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BAD FAITH  

                        "Accomplished, complex and satisfying"

Lin Anderson, author of driftnet

 

 

From Strident Publishing
October 2008
 

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 Before I slipped on the mud and fell 
over the Bishop, our
family didn’t have a lot to do with murder.

A little, but not much...

 

Life’s easy for Cassandra. The privileged daughter of a cleric, she’s been protected from the extremist gangs who enforce the One Church’s will.

Her boyfriend Ming is a bad influence, of course, with infidel parents who are constantly in trouble with the religious authorities. But Cass has no intention of letting that drive them apart...

...until they stumble across a corpse.

What killed him? How did his body end up in their secret childhood haunt? And is this man’s death connected to other, older murders?

As the political atmosphere grows feverish, Cass realises she and Ming face extreme danger...

 

 

 

 

 

 

DARKE ACADEMY:

Secret Lives

by Gabriella Poole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
Hodder Children's Books
August 2009
 

In collaboration with Hothouse Fiction Limited

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 You'll be dying to join the chosen Few

The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An elite establishment that moves to a new exotic city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. And the more new scholarship girl Cassie Bell learns about the Academy, the more curious she becomes.

What sinister secrets are guarded by the Few - the select group of students who keep outsiders away? Who is the dark stranger prowling the corridors at night? And what really happened a year earlier, when the last scholarship girl died in mysterious circumstances?

Cassie quickly discovers that a little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but knowing too much can be deadly...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming in February 2010

DARKE ACADEMY:

Blood Ties


by Gabriella Poole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, determined, and hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few and is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers, a dangerous romance and the malevolent spirit inside her, demanding to be fed.

When an old enemy returns, bent on revenge, Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate, or will she end up destroying them to save herself?

Wherever the Darke Academy goes, death is never far behind ...

 

 

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From Evans Brothers Publishing

Life of the Party   April 2008
Mind's Eye   August 2008
Sea Fever   November 2008