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Take a sneak peek at In Darkness, by Nick Lake

Bloomsbury Publishing have ten copies of In Darkness by Nick Lake to give away this month!

But be quick the deadline for entries is October 1st!


In Darkness (Hardcover)

By (author) Nick Lake

List Price: 12.99 GBP
New From: 3.20 In Stock
Used from: 3.29 In Stock

In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
One. I am alive.
Two. There is no two.

Haiti 2010: in the aftermath of the earthquake a boy lies trapped beneath the rubble: terrified, thirsty and alone.

Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenager who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule his broken city: men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other.

But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that burns inside him, fuelling his determination to find his beloved twin sister, stolen from him five years ago.

In the darkness the lines between the present and the past begin to blur and, as Shorty fights for life, his struggle becomes part of a two-hundred-year-old story – a story of courage and betrayal, of freedom and of hope.

Shorty may not be quite as alone as he believes…

Simply send an email to sneakpeek@bloomsbury.com by the 1st October and ten winners will be selected at random. Please include your name and address so they can send you a copy if you win.


  1. Nikki Pierce Says:

    I would love to win this

  2. june houlton Says:

    after hours of pleasure,it is something to treasure

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