Wendover Bookshop - Counting Stars, David Almond

Counting Stars These short stories encapsulate David Almond's endless sense of mystery and wonderment, as they weave a tangible tapestry of growing up in a large Catholic family. Here are the kernels of his novels - joy and fear, darkness and light, love, death, the bonds of ignorance and prejudice, the healing power of memory and the imagination - a collection of exquisite sensitivity and tenderness.

"These stories are about my childhood. They're about the people I grew up with, our hopes and fears, our tragedies and joys... And perhaps like all stories, they are an attempt to reassemble what is fragmented, to rediscover what has been lost." - David Almond

"Sparely written... this could well be Almond's best work yet." - THE INDEPENDENT

David Almond's debut novel Skellig is one of the most remarkable children's novels published in recent years. It won the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award and the Carnegie Medal.

David Almond sets his novels in the Northeast of England, and his writing, like the ruined industrial landscape his world inhabits, is authentic and realistic. His storytelling is imaginative. Friendship is a theme running through his novels.

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The Goalkeeper's Revenge by Bill Naughton.

Other books by David Almond we recommend include Skellig, Heaven Eyes and Kit's Wilderness.