Ghostlines *Pre-order
Ghostlines *Pre-order
- This title is publishing on 8th May 2025
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Pack your bags and prepare for a sea-soaked adventure - perfect summer reading
“We love Katya Balen. Her stories are moving and thrilling in equal measure, with stunnning atmospheric settings, complex characters and bags of empathy. Ghostlines is no exception - a heartwarming adventure perfect for the summer months.”
~Emily
On the Island of Ayrie, everybody knows everyone. They know each other's stories as they know every road, every hill and the coming of the tide. In the summer, there are bonfires to celebrate the migration of the puffins. Everything is familiar, nothing much changes, and for Tilda, nothing ever should - it is beautiful, it is perfect and it is home.
When newcomer Albie arrives at the island, Tilda wants to show Ayrie off - Albie wants her to leave him alone. She learns quickly that it'll take more than a tour and some seal viewings to win him around. Then, she remembers stories of the old island just an hour's boat ride away from the shore.
The old island is a death trap. The journey there is treacherous. Trips across to it are strictly forbidden. And there's a rumour it's haunted by the ghosts of those left there to die. But with all else having failed, the old island is the only way for Tilda to make Albie see what she sees in Ayrie.
Besides, it's a different kind of ghost that worries Tilda. The ghost that's been following her, now, since her brother left the island.
Katya Balen is an award-winning author of books for children. Her debut novel, The Space We're In, was highly commended for the Branford Boase Award, October, October won the Yoto Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book Award, and The Light in Everything was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal. When she's not writing books, Katya likes to scroll through dog-rescue websites, bake and attempt to keep her house plants alive. She lives in London with her partner and their dog.
Number of pages: 288
Reading age guide: 8 to 12 years
Publication date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781526663887
Format: Paperback
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