Book description
'Edie,' said George, 'we're going to do this together.
I'll be right there with you. Anything, anyone trying to get you is
going to have to come past me first.' But when George makes his
promise he is not aware that high on the rooftops an unseen gargoyle
is watching them hungrily, quivering with anticipation for the moment
when it will unfold its stone wings and pounce. The thing on the roof
knows that nothing is over; nothing is finished. Ironhand takes us
deeper into the layers of un-London, the place where the good and the
bad statues, the spits and the taints, walk and war. George and Edie
must repay the debt which they owe the Gunner for his sacrifice. They
must face unspeakable danger and doubt if they are to save him. This
second title in the Stoneheart sequence by Charlie Fletcher will shake
you with its imaginative grasp and vision. It is an epic excitement,
not to be missed ...
Having studied English Literature at university , Charlie began his
career in the film business carrying cans of film round Soho and making
very bad cups of tea on the principal that he'd then be asked to do
something a bit more interesting, a strategy that he recommends to
anyone starting out as a tea-boy. He progressed to the BBC where he
worked in film editing on everything from Drama to Current Affairs. He
then went to California where he morphed into a screenwriter, having
been awarded a Warner Brothers Fellowship in Screenwriting at USC School
of Cinema and TV. He's written screenplays for Tri-Star, MGM, Paramount
and Warner Bros among others. He continues to write for the movies, and
also television. He still thinks that being a film editor is a pretty
damn fine way to learn about story-telling in general, and narrative
structure and pacing in particular. Charlie also moved into other types
of writing including magazine features, a computer game and as both a
national Sunday newspaper columnist and restaurant reviewer. Finally he
found the way to combine all those writing strands and produced some
rattling-good children's books! The Stoneheart trilogy has been a
massive international hit and Charlie has recently sold the movie rights
of Stoneheart to Paramount. He has also been asked to write the
screenplay himself, which just shows you should never make plans, since
he actually wrote the books to get away from Hollywood for a bit... In
his personal life, Charlie met and married his wife, a fellow Scot, in
LA. They have two children, whom Charlie calls his first, most
important, and toughest audience. They've all now returned from
California and live in Edinburgh with a terrier called Archie.
