Trash
- Author Andy Mulligan
- Narrator various
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Run Time 5 hours and 20 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Countries, cultures and national identity, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues.
Titles Purchased
- 1-5
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- 11-15
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Price p/Title
- £7.99
- £6.99
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What to expect
Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it.
Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything.
Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat are running for their lives. Wanted by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking, fast-talking to stay ahead. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man's mission to put right a terrible wrong.
And now it's three street-boys against the world...
Critics Review
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One of the most exciting and original novels of the year . . . It’s a tight, thrilling story, told from various characters’ perspectives and has a Slumdog, feel-good pulse beating through it. A genuine treasure find
Daily Mail -
One of my favourite novels of 2010, now in paperback with a new cover look. Reminiscent of Slumdog Millionaire, three dumpsite boys take on the world in this gripping and intensely moving story . . . Harrowing, exhilarating, humbling and quite brilliant
The Bookseller -
Outstanding, hotly anticipated thriller . . . an exceptionally satisfying plot
The Times -
Great stuff: taut, plausible and thought-provoking
Daily Telegraph -
Trash is a thriller with moral weight and a complex structure . . . Without ever moralising, Mulligan raises issues of corruption, poverty, waste and excess in an exciting, but also grimly sad tale
Financial Times
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