robert+swindells+lynn





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//Born in Bradford, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged 15.He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a primary school teacher. His first novel,// //When Darkness Comes (1973), was written while he was still in training. Swindells combined writing with teaching until 1980 when he took up writing full-time. He is still writing as he approaches his 71st birthday (March 20th 2010).//======

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//He first won the Children's Book Award with// //Brother in the Land (1984), a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Swindells was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and is quoted as saying that the work "... came out of my own anger and frustration ... you can’t kill selectively with nuclear weapons, you wipe out millions of people ...". Swindells also won the award for// //Room 13 (1990),// //Nightmare Stairs (Short novel, 1998) and// //Blitzed (Younger readers, 2003). His young adult novel// //Stone Cold Carnegie Medal in 1993.// (1993), which dealt with homelessness.======

// Selected bibliography //

 * ======//When Darkness Comes To Day (1973)//======
 * ======//A Candle in the Night (1974)//======
 * ======//Voyage to Valhalla (1976)//======
 * ======//The Ice Palace (1977)//======
 * ======//The Weather Clerk (1979)//======
 * ======//Ghost Ship to Ganymede (1980)//======
 * ======//World-Eater (1983)//======
 * ======//[|Brother in the Land] (1984)//======
 * ======//The Thousand Eyes of Night (1985)//======
 * ======//Staying Up (1986)//======
 * ======//A Serpent's Tooth (1988)//======
 * ======//[|Room 13] (1989)//======
 * ======//[|Daz 4 Zoe] (1990)//======
 * ======//[|Stone Cold] (1993)//======
 * ======//Timesnatch (1994)//======
 * ======//Unbeliever (1995)//======
 * ======//Jacqueline Hyde (1996)//======
 * ======//The Last Bus (1996)//======
 * ======//Nightmare Stairs (1997)//======
 * ======//Smash! (1997)//======
 * ======//Hurricane Summer (1997)//======
 * ======//[|Abomination] (1998)//======
 * ======//Dosh (1999)//======
 * ======//[|Invisible!] (2000)//======
 * ======//Doodlebug Alley (2000)//======
 * ======//A Wish for Wings (2001)//======
 * ======//Wrecked (2001)//======
 * ======//Blitzed (2002)//======
 * ======//No Angels (2003)//======
 * ======//Ruby Tanya (2004)//======
 * ======//Roger's War]] (2004)//======
 * ======//Branded (2005)//======
 * ======//Snapshot (2005)//======
 * ======//Snakebite (2006)//======
 * ======//[|In the Nick of Time] (2007)//======
 * ======//Burnout (2007)//======
 * ======//The Shade of Hettie Daynes (2008)//======
 * ======//[|The Tunnel] (2008)//======
 * ======//Blitzed(2008)//======

// **Awards and nominations** //

 * ======//**1985** [|Brother in the Land] won the [|Red House Children's Book Award][|[2]]//======
 * ======//**1990** [|Room 13] won the [|Red House Children's Book Award][|[2]]//======
 * ======//**1993** [|Stone Cold] won the [|Carnegie Medal][|[3]]//======
 * ======//**1998** Nightmare Stairs won the [|Red House Children's Book Award] For A Short Novel[|[2]]//======
 * ======//**1998** [|Unbeliever] won the [|Angus Book Award][|[4]]//======
 * ======//**2003** Blitzed won the [|Red House Children's Book Award] For Younger Readers[|[2]]//======
 * ======//**2006** [|Branded] longlisted for the [|Manchester Book Award][|[5]]//======
 * ======//**2006** Ruby Tanya shortlisted for the [|Hampshire Book Award][|[6]]//======