James Jauncey
James (Jamie) Jauncey has written for adults, young adults and children. His previous titles include The Albatross Conspiracy (Andre Deutsch), The Mapmaker (Andre Deutsch/Sceptre) and The Crystal Keeper (Scholastic).
A former chairman of the Society of Authors in Scotland and member of the Scottish Arts Council’s Literature Committee, Jamie is currently on the board of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He is also a musician, and a co-founder of the Dark Angels programme of Creative Writing in Business courses.
He lives in Perthshire.
http://www.jamesjauncey.com
Books by James Jauncey
The Witness
A taut, gripping literary thriller set in the near future. Scotland has been independent for several years. Land has been disastrously nationalised and now armed insurrection has broken out in the Highlands. Eighteen-year old John MacNeil has little interest in politics – but in the course of the story is forced to take sides, especially as he develops a relationship with a damaged boy, orphaned by an atrocity which wipes out his village. It’s an exceptional, timely novel for older children - it’s set in Scotland, but will have wide resonance.
Publication date : August 2007
World volume rights : Macmillan Children’s Books
The Reckoning
Eighteen year-old Fin Carpenter sees a girl fall through the mist from the bridge that links Whale Island with the mainland. Did she jump or was she pushed? And what is her connection with Fin’s missing sister? These are only the first in a series of questions that lead him to the discovery of something rotten at the heart of his remote island community, and the uncovering of decades-old family secrets. Another gripping literary thriller for older children that tackles issues of race-hatred, the environment and family loyalties as Fin confronts a world where almost nothing is as it seems.
‘The Reckoning is tense and exciting, it’s only too credible, it asks difficult questions, has a charismatic central character and an atmospheric setting, and doesn’t shy away from death. What more could you ask?’
thebookbag.com
‘This is both a tense thriller and a moving boy-into-man story’
Telegraph
‘Thought-provoking and pleasurable. A thriller for intelligent and sensitive teenagers.’
The Big Issue
November 2008, Young Picador