{"product_id":"2940016547282","title":"The Ragged People: a story of the post-plague years","description":"\u003cp\u003e Life in the refugee camp is hard for Dan and his brother Rick. They sleep huddled together with a thousand other refugees in an enormous warehouse, and they spend all day queuing for food and water and medicine, watched over by soldiers in anti-contamination masks. And all around them, people are dying: dying from hunger, dying from one of the new plagues, or dying simply because they have lost the will to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Selected from a line-up by the intimidating Mr Wiley, the boys leap at a chance to leave the camp and go to live in the Brightwell Community, but their hopes are soon dashed. Is a life of forced labour in a land at the mercy of raiding gangs and ever-mutating plagues really any better than the UN refugee camp had been?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA gripping post-apocalypse story of two brothers struggling to survive in a Britain devastated by biological warfare, from the author of the bestselling vampire novel \u003cem\u003ePiggies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Praise for Nick Gifford's work:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'The king of children's horror' - \u003cem\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Guaranteed to scare your socks off' - \u003cem\u003eGlasgow Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A bold, shocking and completely unputdownable horror story' - \u003cem\u003eWaterstone's Books Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A cut above the usual horror tale' - \u003cem\u003eSchool Librarian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Really spooky! I'd definitely try out other books by this author as Nick Gifford makes you want to keep reading' \u003cem\u003eTeen Titles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'One of the most original horror tales of recent times ... you'll have to go back quite a way to find a debut novel that is quite as striking as \u003cem\u003ePiggies\u003c\/em\u003e' - \u003cem\u003eRhyl and Prestatyn Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNick Gifford\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePiggies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlesh and Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIncubus \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eErased\u003c\/em\u003e, and he has been described by the \u003cem\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/em\u003e as 'The king of children's horror'. His work has been optioned for movies and has featured on various bestseller lists, at one time out-ranking JK Rowling's Harry Potter books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"infinite press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46566493487345,"sku":"2940016547282","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940016547282_p0.jpg?v=1765983811","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016547282","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}