Client details
Sam Mills
| Simon Trewin | Assistant: Ariella Feiner |
Sam Mills was born in 1975 and studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University. She has published two Young Adult novels with Faber,including A NICER WAY TO DIE which was described by the Daily Telegraph as 'not for the faint-hearted' and by Achuka as 'a weird combination of Stephen King and Toby Litt.' Her work is published in the US by Alfred Knopf and has been translated into 4 languages. Current Publication: I am on the run. The police are chasing me because they think I'm a terrorist. The trouble all began when my Dad, who's a bookseller, hid a writer called Omar Shakir in our house. Omar wrote a book you may have heard of but won't have read. It's called The Exploded. It inspired a terrorist attack on London. That's why it's a BANNED book. We live in dangerous times. Lots of books are banned now. "Harry Potter". "Alex Rider". "James Bond". If you're caught reading one, you could go to jail. The state says books and films and computer games have to be nice and happy, so they don't inspire teenagers to commit violent crime or terrorism. I thought they were wrong. I thought, how much harm can a book do? Then I read one. Now I'm about to commit murder. Now I know better. Books are dangerous. |
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| THE BOYS WHO SAVED THE WORLD 2007 Faber | Jon knows what he has to do. If he isn't strong, everyone in his school is going to die. Or so he's been told by Jeremiah, the manipulative, deluded leader of the Brotherhood of Hebetheus - a group of lonely, damaged boys who have started a new religion that makes them feel invincible. But when the boys become convinced that a classmate is involved in a plot to blow up the school, they know they must act. No one will believe them and so they lay their own plans - plans that lead to theft, kidnap, a media frenzy, and, ultimately, bloodshed. |
| A NICER WAY TO DIE 2006 Faber | A stunning debut young adult thriller about a group of thirty pupils who travel to France on a school trip. The repercussions of an accident change two boys` lives forever. |
| Georgina Lewis | +44 (0) 20 3214 0871 |
| Sam Mills is represented by Georgina Lewis for Dramatic Rights |
