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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 07 August 2012 Page Views: 19180
Mysteries Quicksilver is an exciting mix of ancient mysteries for readers of all ages. The story is set in modern London and follows the children on their travels.Page updated from Feb 2010. Then we ran a competition with 10 signed copies to give away and we announced the winners below. I have also added my interview with the author, Sam and a review from myself and my son.
Here is how Sam (Samira) the author describes her book:
Wolfie Brown, Tala Bean and Zi’ib Bakri live continents apart, but their destiny lies in a rundown London suburb. The mysterious force of ancient ley lines brings them to Thornham to fulfil a prophecy written in prehistory. As they fight their faceless enemies, they discover why their parents have vanished and learn the chilling truth of who they really are…
Sam writes: Quicksilver is my first book for children and it’s full of ideas and snippets of fact that I picked up while making documentaries for television.
Years ago I worked on a series called House Detectives where a team of archaeologists armed with old maps, tape measures, picks and shovels would descend on an ordinary family home and try to trace its history as far back in time as they could. It was amazing what they found.
The series got me thinking about the lost worlds that lie beneath our modern burger bars and backstreets and the tiny traces of the ancient past that still lurk in the most unlikely places if we just know where and how to look for them. So although Thornham (where Quicksilver is set) is an imaginary suburb of South London its ancient history is based on the very real and very ordinary South London suburbs of Streatham, Tooting Bec and West Norwood, which are near to where I live.
There is more at Sam Osman's web site, where you can currently download the first four chapters to start you off. Don't look at the page about book two (now out as Serpent’s Gold) until you have finished Quicksilver though.
The question to win a signed copy was "Name the three countries that the three main characters Wolfie, Tala and Zi’ib come from", the answers are: Wolfie: England, Tala: USA (California), Zi’ib:Sudan
We had an excellent response to the competition and following a random draw, I'm pleased to announce the winners as follows:
Peter Tuck, Sutherland
Janelle Mason, Brighton
Stephen Hill, Cheadle
Ed Galloway, Northern Ireland
Larry Quinn, Utah
JeanJeany, address TBC
Sue Craig, address TBC
Pat O'Halloran, North Yorkshire
Wayne Laws, Surrey
Pamela Kerr, Isle of Wight
Well done everyone, your books will be in the post shortly.
I am tipping this one for great things, Quicksilver is already climbing the charts at Amazon.co.uk since I last looked
Note: Hollywood film adaptation of Quicksilver announced, in script development
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