B. R. Collins
Children's Author
Photograph: B R Collins
Books
Books
Bridget Collins was born in 1981 and trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after graduating from King's College, Cambridge. She was twice winner of the Young National Poetry Competition (now the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award) and has had two plays produced, one of which, a free adaptation of Trojan Women, was performed to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She now writes young adult novels.
"A notable new writer has arrived" - Sunday Times
Latest Publication:
LOVE IN REVOLUTION (1st August 2013, Bloomsbury)
Esteya is fifteen. As war rumbles closer, Esteya's brother - an important figure in the Revolutionary Communist Party - is able to protect their family from the worst of the privations of war. Then Esteya meets an extraordinary girl, Skizi, an outcast, shunned by all. But Esteya and Skizi are drawn to each other. Slowly and wonderfully love blossoms ... And then Esteya's family are betrayed and forcibly taken away. Skizi disappears.
Esteya is left deserted, heartbroken and in terrible danger. But she must find a way to escape - and to find Skizi.
MAZECHEAT (2nd August 2012, Bloomsbury )
Ario is a Cheat: somebody who designs and sells Cheat Codes to Gamerunners. Rick and Pir are Gamerunners: people who try to win their fortune by playing The Maze, the interactive computer game that is so much more than an ordinary computer game. MazeCheat is set in a futuristic city scape where acid rain permanently falls. But despite the dreary surroundings there is a something that enables everybody to escape their everyday life. And that is The Maze, the interactive computer game where you don't just play the game onscreen,you physically enter the world. Once in, you play - run, fight, avoid traps, choose your weapons - as if you are actually there. The hold of the game on everybody's minds means that the company behind it, CRATER, is all-powerful. But CRATER have a game expansion that is sinister to the extreme. In their new game, if you finally manage to beat it, it takes your brain and in particular your memories, to use as material for new games, for new Gamerunners, leaving you an empty shell. Except no one knows that yet. And when something terrible happens to Pir in The Maze, Ario and Rick need to try to destroy this terrible expansion of the game that kills. But the all-seeing CRATER is also onto them and time is running out . . .
Awards won:
THE BROKEN ROAD has just been longlisted for a 2013 UK Literacy Agency Book Award and the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Medal.
