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Moira Young

Moira Young
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Moira Young

Moira Young is the author of Blood Red Road, the first book in The Dust Lands series, which was a Best Fiction for Young Adults selection. A native Canadian, she lives with her husband in the UK. Learn more at DustLandsBooks.com.

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Blood Red Road will be released on January 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Blood Red Road is now available in Trade Paperback
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Blood Red Road will be released on June 07, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
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Examiner.com, May 4, 2012
...Blood Red Road is the first installment in the Dust Lands series by debut author Moira Young.� Set in a post-apocalyptic world, this book will delight fans of dystopian fiction.� It is also my favorite new series.� Blood Red Road has already been...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 19, 2012
...years ago and has built up a reputation for publishing outstanding new authors such as Ally Kennen and Moira Young, winner of the 2012 Costa Award, alongside new books by established authors including Philip Reeve. Marion Lloyd. Lloyd is highly respected...
Examiner.com, April 5, 2012
...they may have a chance to escape and to survive. 2. Blood Red Road (Dust Lands #1) by Moira Young Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving...
Telegraph, March 30, 2012
...most dramatically successful, Im going to highlight three, all published in the last year. Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Scholastic), which recently won the Costa childrens book prize, set in a nightmare future, is about a teenage girls quest to recover...
Examiner.com, March 26, 2012
...few dystopian titles that fans of The Hunger Games in particular will likely enjoy. Blood Red Road by Moira Young Lots of action, brutal violence, and a barren futuristic world mark this unique voice in fiction. Moira Young's debut novel Blood Red Road...
Indiewire, March 23, 2012
...on for the movies. As such, it was smart of Scott Free to snap up the rights to Moira Young 's book last year, and even smarter to hire rising writer Jack Thorne to write the script. It seems to be the stuff of high adventure, has a strong...
Guardian.co.uk, March 19, 2012
...sequel Pandemonium is out this month) and last year's Costa Children's Award-winning Blood Red Road by Moira Young. These stories present worlds full of cowed populations, tyrannical governments, post-nuclear, pollution-devastated, war-torn landscapes, ...
Media Bistro, February 21, 2012
...dystopian fiction? We caught up with The Chemical Garden trilogy author Lauren DeStefano and the Dustlands trilogy author Moira Young to talk about the art of writing dystopian fiction.� DeStefano (pictured, left) and Young (pictured, right) both have...
Guardian.co.uk, February 10, 2012
...Road is a fascinating and powerful novel set in a post-apocalyptic period. It is the debut novel of Moira Young and it has won a Costa Book Award. Needless to say it is a great book and is the first in the Dustlands Trilogy. I have read many dystopian...
The Oregon Herald, January 30, 2012
...Watson, "The Bees" by British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's book "Blood Red Road" by Moira Young. "It really was a fierce debate and there was quite bitter dissent and argument," Greig told reporters. "The debate was prolonged." He...
Bath Chronicle, January 27, 2012
...it is a sell-out, there may be returns. Box office is on 01225 428600. 7. Read ex-Chronicle employee Moira Young's critically-acclaimed debut novel Blood Red Road. 8. See Bath in a new light by checking out the Illuminate Bath 2012 festival, which...
Philippine Times, January 26, 2012
...praised the book's "vivid rendition" of the era. Mr Miller beat the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Moira Young, Christie Watson and ... ... Read the full story at BBC...
Bath Chronicle, January 26, 2012
...in the heart of 18th-century Paris. He beat a host of other authors, including former Bath Chronicle PA Moira Young and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. The judges, who included novelist Patrick Gale and actors Hugh Dennis and Dervla Kirwan, spent 90...
Asian Age, January 26, 2012
...Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection, The Bees; and former opera singer and debut children’s writer, Moira Young’s Blood Red Road. The Costa Book of the Year award was won last year by London poet Jo Shapcott for her poetry collection, Of...