Swindells is married, lives in Yorkshire and has two daughters and three grandchildren. His young adult novel Stone Cold (1993), which dealt with homelessness, won the Carnegie Medal in 1994. ' Swindells also won the award for Room 13 (1990), Nightmare Stairs (Short novel, 1998) and Blitzed (Younger readers, 2003). you can't kill selectively with nuclear weapons, you wipe out millions of people. came out of my own anger and frustration. Swindells was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and is quoted as saying that the work '. He first won the Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land (1985), a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Swindells combined writing with teaching until 1980 when he took up writing full-time. His first novel, When Darkness Comes (1973), was written as his thesis while in training. He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a teacher. Born in Bradford, the first of five children, Swindells worked for a local newspaper after leaving school aged 15. 'Bob' Swindells (born 20 March 1939) is an author of children's and young adult literature. Introducing the MIT Walker Collection - bringing innovative new STEAM books written by experts.25 books about the outdoors to inspire your green-fingered kids for National Gardening Week.Announcing the Children's and Young Adult Jhalak Prize Shortlist.Empathy Day steps up a gear as it returns for its seventh year – at a time of great need.

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The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Category: Children & Young Adult Teenage Fiction ISBN: 0440864666. Timesnatch by Robert Swindells, May 26, 1994, Transworld Publishers Ltd edition, Hardcover. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: nce a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it? Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.

Clear, self-adhesive laminate to covers/boards. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition.