THE ANARCHIST’S
ANGEL
By Gareth Thompson
To be published by Definitions on 5th February 2009
9781862304680/ £6.99/ Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Samson Ashburner has always felt like an outsider - even before the accident that left his face
scarred and his confidence shattered. With the jeers and taunts of the local children and his mother ringing in his
ears, Samson malingers like a dark cloud over the Cumbrian landscape.
His only refuge is his ancestor's charcoal-burning hut deep in the nearby woods and it is here that he encounters
Angel Obscura, a gypsy girl who teachers Samson that not everybody takes him at face value.
But Angel is not all that she seems, and Samson is drawn into a web of deceit and shady dealings with an
explosive outcome.
Anarchist's Angel teeters on a precipice between savagery and immense compassion, it crackles with energy
and the seering heat of deep felt, raw human emotions – Jake Hope, The Bookseller
About the author:
Gareth Thompson was born in northern England in 1964. After graduating from the London College of Printing
he has worked for United Newspapers, directed performing arts for adults with learning difficulties, worked as
Deputy Editor for Whatsonstage.com and as a sub-editor at the Press Association.
Gareth’s first novel for young adult readers was The Great Harlequin Grim which was shortlisted for the
Branford Boase Award in 2007.
On The Great Harlequin Grim –
What a remarkable first novel, I was gripped from beginning to end . . . What a writer! – Wendy Cooling
His second novel was Sunshine to the Sunless which was published in 2008. Anarchist’s Angel is Gareth’s
third novel for young adult readers – a tense, heated, compelling novel.
For further information please contact Nina Douglas on 020 8231 6740 or email ndouglas@randomhouse.co.uk