Endgame
When an environmental disaster sparks off a conflict in the Far East which looks like it could lead to World War III four friends in Sheffield must face up to their worst nightmares. The prospect of a nuclear attack forces Kayleigh, Mayner, Wren and Jamie to open old wounds and confront their regrets, hopes and fears. What will they hold on to if and when their last moment arrives?
Chris Wooding
Chris Wooding grew up in a small town in the Midlands, where nothing very interesting happened. So he started to write. His first book contract was signed at age nineteen. By the time he left university he was working as a full time author and he has been writing professionally all his working life. Only in his early 30s, Chris Wooding is the author of eighteen books that have been translated into twenty languages. His books have won the Nestlé Smarties Silver Award and the Bram Stoker Award, among others, and have been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He also writes for TV and film, and his first graphic novel is being published in 2012.