Wish Me Dead

The much-anticipated third novel from a writer set to rival the likes of Meg Rosoff, Mark Haddon and Kevin Brooks. 
 
Helen Grant's debut novel, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. 
 
A compulsive thriller.

Helen Grant was born in London, and read Classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford. In 2001 she and her family moved to Bad Münstereifel in Germany, and it was exploring the legends of this beautiful town that inspired her to write her first novel, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden. She now lives in Brussels with her husband, her two children and a small German cat.

The funny thing is I never even meant the first one. 
Now I bitterly regret visiting the cursed witch's house, deep in the middle of the forest. It's where I made my wishes. 
 
I wished Klara Klein dead. 
It came true. 
 
I wished for the most gorgeous boy in town to finally notice me. 
It came true. 
 
I wished to be rid of the poisonous busybody who destroyed my family. 
It came true. 
 
I didn't mean for this to happen. Not me, Steffi Nett, the shy one who never says anything. But as the body count increases with every wish I make . . .who else could it be?

The Demons of Ghent

A chilling Flanders-set crime thriller by acclaimed teen author, Helen Grant,

Dark, atmospheric writing . . . briliantly controlled tension'

The perfect book . . . heart-stoppingly scary

Captivating from the first page . . . [Grant] is a first-class storyteller, and her books are thrillers that actually thrill

Make[s] the kind of breathtaking journey I wanted to begin again the moment I'd finished

Helen Grant is a highly acclaimed YA author. Her debut novel attractied praise from critics and readers alike and was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. 
 
Born in London in 1964, Helen showed an early leaning towards the arts after being told off for writing stories under the desk during maths lessons. She went on to read Classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then worked in marketing for ten years to fund her love of travelling before returning to writing. 
 
Helen now lives near Brussels with her husband, her two children and their two cats.

Veerle has moved to Ghent to start a new life with her father and his girlfriend, she's isolated and alone. But not as alone as she had thought . . . 
 
Veerle recognises a familiar face in the crowds one day, a face connected to a past that she has been fighting to get over, a past that involved murder. 
 
A spate of deaths hit the city but has Death followed Veerle to Ghent or is this something new?

Silent Saturday

A chilling tale of murder and deception - from acclaimed YA author Helen Grant

After her powerful debut, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, Grant has established herself as a major talent in YA fiction and this menacing story of stalking and murder simply confirms that... Grant builds characters and tension with smooth confidence, and her dialogue is fresh and contemporary. The whole package adds up to the compulsive first adventure in a trilogy’

Silent Saturday is another great book from Helen Grant, who keeps getting better and better with each book. If you enjoy YA thrillers then Silent Saturday – as for that matter her previous three books – comes highly recommended.

I loved Silent Saturday. I also loved Helen Grant’s earlier German novels, but something tells me I love this one even more. Silent Saturday is the first of Helen’s new Belgian trilogy, and if a horror thriller can be described as comfortable, then this is it . . . Go find a sofa to hide behind. Not that it will help, but you’ll be under the impression that you’re in control.

Grant writes with a fierce intelligence and sympathy for adolescents

It had me hooked from the very start - Helen Grant's prose is beautifully spare, not a word wasted but still deliciously elegant and descriptive

Helen Grant is a highly acclaimed YA author. Her debut novel attracted praise from critics and readers alike and was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. 
 
Born in London in 1964, Helen showed an early leaning towards the arts after being told off for writing stories under the desk during maths lessons. She went on to read Classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then worked in marketing for ten years to fund her love of travelling before returning to writing. 
 
Helen now lives near Brussels with her husband, her two children and their two cats.

Seventeen-year-old Veerle is bored with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members illegally break into unoccupied buildings around the city, soon opens up a whole new world of excitement - and danger. 
 
When one of the society's founding members disappears, Veerle suspects foul play. But nothing can prepare her for the horror that is about to unfold when an old foe emerges from the shadows... No one is safe, and The Hunter will strike again...

The Glass Demon

The Glass Demon is a thrilling young adult novel filled with mystery and the supernatural from Helen Grant, author of The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, in which Lin Fox is about to discover that not all fairytales are fiction. The Glass Demon bridges the world of the traditional Grimm fairytale with the darker world of Angela Carter's adult fairytales. 
 
The first death 
Seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard. As she backs away in horror, she steps on broken glass. 
 
The second death 
Then blood appears on her doorstep - blood, and broken glass. 
 
The third death 
Something terrible is found in the cemetery. Shards of broken glass lie by a grave. 
 
Who will be next? 
 
As the attacks become more sinister, Lin doesn't know who to trust. She's getting closer to the truth behind these chilling discoveries, but with each move the danger deepens. 
 
Because someone wants Lin gone - and won't give up until he's got rid of her and her family. Forever. 
 
Helen Grant's first teen novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; her other darkly thrilling young adult novels, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden and Wish Me Dead, are also available from Penguin.

Guardian on The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

A richly textured, effortlessly written novel

Sunday Telegraph on The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

For something so chilling, it is terrific entertainment

Sunday Times on The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

An impressive debut from a writer to watch

Daily Mail on The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

Helen Grant was born in London. She read Classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then worked in marketing for ten years in order to fund her love of travelling. In 2001 she and her family moved to Bad Münstereifel in Germany, and it was exploring the legends of this beautiful town that inspired her to write her first novel, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden. She now lives in Brussels with her husband, her two children and a small German cat.

The first death: Seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard. As she backs away in horror, she steps on broken glass. The second death: Then blood appears on her doorstep - blood, and broken glass.The third death: Something terrible is found in the cemetery. Shards of broken glass lie by a grave.Who will be next? As the attacks become more sinister, Lin doesn't know who to trust. She's getting closer to the truth behind these chilling discoveries, but with each move the danger deepens. 
 
Because someone wants Lin gone - and won't give up until he's got rid of her and her family. Forever.

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Helen Grant's first teen novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden follows a misfit teenager as she attempts to unravel the mystery of several strange disappearances in the small town of Bad Münstereifel. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden bridges the world of the traditional Grimm fairytale with the darker world of Angela Carter's adult fairytales. 
 
On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else? 
 
Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina. 
 
But then the next girl disappears. . . 
 
'For something so chilling, it is terrific entertainment' Sunday Times 
 
'Grant's splendid debut...is a feast of treats and creeps. Wonderful' Guardian 
 
'A strange, haunting modern fairy tale' John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things 
 
The setting of the small German town of Bad Münstereifel, in Helen Grant's debut novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, is based on her own experience of emigrating there from England as a child. Her other darkly thrilling young adult novels, The Glass Demon and Wish Me Dead, are also available from Penguin.

Helen Grant was born in London. She read Classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then worked in marketing for ten years in order to fund her love of travelling. In 2001 she and her family moved to Bad Münstereifel in Germany, and it was exploring the legends of this beautiful town that inspired her to write her first novel. She now lives in Brussels with her husband, her two children and a small German cat.

On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her alive. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else? 
 
Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina. 
 
But then the next girl disappears . . .

Helen Grant

There were times when I was almost too scared to turn the page . . . Well written and brilliantly paced . . . As it says on the cover: "No one is safe"

Helen writes so perfectly, that you just can’t not read. She knows precisely how to play on all your inner fears, and then some

Urban Legends was an exciting end to the trilogy. There was heart-stopping action, surprises that shocked me . . . plenty of creepy abandoned buildings and plenty of atmosphere

Grant's pacing in Urban Legends is impeccable . . . just a perfect end to the series . . . I can’t recommend Urban Legends and its predecessors highly enough

Thrilling and chilling - but don't read it when home alone.

A suitably creepy tale of murder and urban exploration

The build-up of tension is so excellently handled that the desire to know what happens next has to be set against the fear that the revelation of what lies ahead is going to shock us well out of our comfort zone . . . she certainly knows how to play with a reader's nervous system

A group of story-tellers are disappearing one by one. 
 
A young woman is haunted by her past. 
 
A serial killer has one target he is desperate to hunt down. 
 
Veerle is trying to lie low, to live as 'normal' a life as she possibly can. But when you've thwarted a serial killer, it's hard to do this. Especially when he wants revenge . . .

Helen Grant

Praise for Urban Legends

There were times when I was almost too scared to turn the page . . . Well written and brilliantly paced . . . As it says on the cover: "No one is safe"

Helen writes so perfectly, that you just can’t not read. She knows precisely how to play on all your inner fears, and then some

Urban Legends was an exciting end to the trilogy. There was heart-stopping action, surprises that shocked me . . . plenty of creepy abandoned buildings and plenty of atmosphere

There were times when I was almost too scared to turn the page . . . Well written and brilliantly paced . . . As it says on the cover: "No one is safe"

Helen writes so perfectly, that you just can’t not read. She knows precisely how to play on all your inner fears, and then some

Urban Legends was an exciting end to the trilogy. There was heart-stopping action, surprises that shocked me . . . plenty of creepy abandoned buildings and plenty of atmosphere

There were times when I was almost too scared to turn the page . . . Well written and brilliantly paced . . . As it says on the cover: "No one is safe"

Helen writes so perfectly, that you just can’t not read. She knows precisely how to play on all your inner fears, and then some

Urban Legends was an exciting end to the trilogy. There was heart-stopping action, surprises that shocked me . . . plenty of creepy abandoned buildings and plenty of atmosphere

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