
Genesis
Bernard Beckett(Author)
Becky Wright(Speaker)
Quercus Children's Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. March 2009
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-84724-899-2 (ISBN)
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. She'd better. She's sat facing three Examiners and her gruelling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. If she passes, she'll be admitted into The Academy - the elite institution that runs her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she's been taught isn't the whole story. And that The Academy isn't what she believes it to be. Anax's examination leads us into a future where ancient - eternal - philosophical questions have dramatically collided with the march of technology, where just what it means to be human is up for debate, and where the concealed stain of an Original Sin threatens the very existence of her Brave New World.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Dimensions
Height: 124 mm
Width: 142 mm
Duration
Dauer: 240 min
ISBN-13
978-1-84724-899-2 (9781847248992)
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Persons
Bernard Beckett, born in 1967, is a high school teacher based in Wellington, New Zealand, where he teaches Drama, Mathematics and English. Genesis was written while he was on a Royal Society genetics research fellowship investigating DNA mutations. Genesis won the Young Adult Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2007 and the 2007 Esther Glen award.Becky Wright trained at Bristol University and Mountview. Theatre work includes 'The Witches' and appearing as Kate in 'The Taming of the Shrew', and radio performances include Becky Cranford in the BBC Radio Drama Series 'Children of Witchwood'. She is currently playing Nic Hanson in 'The Archers'. This is her first audiobook.