Bøger af Katharine Quarmby

Avery clashes with the new teacher, Mr Harrington. He's so strict and doesn't understand her. It's not long before an argument between them lands Avery in big trouble. Avery soon realises that she isn't the only one suffering unfair punishments. Enough is enough. It's time to make stand.

People think Sarah has made a mistake. A HUGE mistake. An act of betrayal so big that she has lost every single one of her friends. Things only get worse when her classmates and complete strangers take to social media to destroy her. But it's all Sarah's fault. She deserves it... right?

Things have been hard since Sam's mum died, but his dad has always done his best to make life less of a struggle. When dad gets sick, Sam's world falls apart. Suddenly, he's in foster care, and life as he knows it changes forever. Sam struggles to adopt to his new school as his dad lies in ICU. Then there's the school bully...

Balancing the equation of life is hard for Ash. He feels like everyone is growing up and leaving him behind. Even his little brother has a better social life than him. When a teacher pairs Ash with Jodie to help with maths, she makes his life hell, and Ash can't see any way to escape it. Can Ash find the formula to solve the problem?

When Abdul flees his home, leaving everyone he loves behind, he thinks he will find an easier life in England. But when his asylum application is rejected, he ends up living on the streets. Abdul is determined not to give up, but then he becomes the victim of a vicious hate crime. Will he lose everything that he's worked so hard for?

Caz never knew she could fancy girls until she met Jo. But when Jo thinks the football team will discover their secret relationship, she ends things in the worst possible way. A vicious rumour about Caz blazes through school and the bullies close in. All alone, Caz has no one she can turn to. Will anyone step up and be on Caz's side?

SALES POINTS Katharine Quarmby is an award-winning investigative journalist focusing on marginalised groups in society. Her writing appears frequently in leading publications from The Times to the Atlantic{::}, and she is a regular guest on radio and television programmes from Women's Hour to Channel 4 News.She will be available for events and press around publication.The novel is based on real figures and events that the author discovered though research in historical records.For fans of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue and The Foundling by Stacey Halls.

A ground-breaking portrait of the way our society treats some of its most disadvantaged members, Quarmby's book is the first to examine the roots of our uncomfortable and often hostile attitudes towards disabled people, and to argue for greater official recognition of these crimes as hate crimes.

The shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a homeThey are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to settle down but then, as Occupy was taking over Wall Street and London, the vocal Dale Farm community in Essex was evicted from their land. Many did not leave quietly; they put up a legal and at times physical fight. Award-winning journalist Katharine Quarmby takes us into the heat of the battle, following the Sheridan, McCarthy, Burton and Townsley families before and after the eviction, from Dale Farm to Meriden and other trouble spots. Based on exclusive access over the course of seven years and rich historical research, No Place to Call Home is a stunning narrative of long-sought justice.