Book description
Anthony Bonehill plans to outwit a Djinn with his seven accomplices.
Six will make their wish, and the seventh must wish the Djinn dead. But
the seventh accomplice, Carlos Grossford, double-crosses them and now he
can wield whatever tyranny he chooses.
Necessity Bonehill is a tomboy. Being sent to a boarding school for
girls has honed rather than tamed her wild side. She fears her parents
were keen to get rid of her, and therefore feels abandoned. So when
Uncle Carlos starts sending her food parcels, she is happy that someone
cares. Then one day he sends a stoppered bottle. Ness is perplexed, but
surely there can't be any harm in opening an empty bottle?
She takes out the stopper and unwittingly launches herself into and
exotic and cut-throat world as the powerful Djinn is set free, hell-bent
on revenge. Praise for The Demon Collector
:
Mortlock
was a striking debut . . . it created a creepy atmosphere that won much
praise. The Demon Collector
is equally full of well-written suspense but far funnier, with a strong
filmic element that fans of Joseph Delaney's Spooks Apprentice
and Anthony McGowan's Hellbent
will lap up Jon Mayhew is a man with a dark imagination, who has
always loved writing and storytelling. An English teacher (to children
and teenagers) for 20 years, he now works as a specialist teacher for
children with autism. He has four children himself and, when neither
teaching nor writing, he plays in ceilidh bands and runs marathons. Jon
lives between the ancient cities of Chester and Liverpool. Jon s debut
novel, Mortlock
, was shortlisted for the 2011 Waterstone s Children s Book Prize,
nominated for the 2011 Branford Boase Award and has been chosen for
Booked Up 2011.
