There is nothing as effortless as reading a Keith Gray book I don t how he does it but I m very jealous he immediately sweeps you up and carries you off into the story The List is no different It s just brilliant For anyone who loves reading and for anyone who doesn t THE LIST
Can friendships survive as Denny relives the good times and rewrites the bad in this comic and compelling tale from award winning author Keith Gray It s the end of the summer and Denny is having to move away with his mum now that she s found a good job but he s not planning on leaving quietly He s made a list of scores to settle and wrongs to right before he goes He asks his best friend Jake to help Jake is absolutely gutted that Denny is leaving and worries what life will be like without him Of course he ll do anything to help no matter how weird or unrealistic the items on Denny s list might be But the list is powerful than either of them realise it can make and break friendships THE LISTKeith Gray grew up in and around Grimsby and Cleethorpes on the east coast of England and decided he d better take his writing ambition seriously after achieving 0% in his accountancy exams His debut Creepers was published when he was only 24 and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize Since then his books have either won or been shortlisted for awards all over the world including the Sankei Cultural Publishing Prize of Japan the American Library Association Best Books YA and the Booktrust Teenage Prize In the UK his bestselling novel Ostrich Boys was shortlisted for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal the Costa Children s Book Award and won the Scottish Children s Book Awards and has been adapted for the stage Keith has been a reviewer for both the Guardian and Scotsman newspapers In 2017 he moved to live in Vienna Austria with his partner their daughter and a parrot called Bellamy Keith is a co founder of Sunday Writers Club..