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ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer. RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
"""""Gripping. . . Swindells deftly explains the atmosphere of war-torn London . . . without bogging down the pace of the book.. . . well worth reading."" ""Publishers Weekly"" on"" Shrapnel"" """"Swindells paints the home front like a play, in page-turning but atmospheric scenes full of details of everyday life and secondary characters that rise, well-rounded, from spare, believable dialogue."" ""School Library Journal ""on ""Shrapnel"" ""Swindells novel shows the excitement of the war at home."" Booklist"" ""Swindells' novel shows the excitement of the war at home."" --Booklist """"Gripping . . . Swindells deftly explains the atmosphere of war-torn London . . . without bogging down the pace of the book. . . . well worth reading."" --""Publishers Weekly"" on"" Shrapnel"
