Dear parents and carers of Eltham College,
I’m going to be visiting your child’s school on 7th May for an author talk and writing workshop. I’m very much looking forward to it, and I know it will be an enjoyable day.
As part of my school visits I offer a chance to get a signed copy of my books at a discounted price. Please see below for details of both books, and a link to a payment page if you would like to place an order.
Remember to enter your full name on the payment page (so we know who has ordered) and the first name of your child in the notes box.
I will bring the books with me on the day so the children can pick them up from me in person.
Happy reading!
Matt
Through Water and Fire
£6.00 promotional price (rrp £8.99)
What would you do to help a friend?
What would you risk to save a traitor?
Sent to live with her aunt and cousins in the opulent surroundings of Lockwood Hall, Grace is desperate to impress. But everything she does leads from bad to worse, and soon she is faced with losing her only friend and being sent home in disgrace.
When she stumbles across a deadly secret, she must decide whether to protect herself and her future, or risk everything to save the life of a criminal …
From the author of ‘Out of the Smoke’ comes a gripping mystery set in the perilous world of Tudor England at the dawn of the Reformation.
Out of the Smoke
£5.00 promotional price (rrp £7.99)
Billy stood on the ridge and looked north to where the dome of St Paul’s rose over the city, surrounded by a forest of chimneys disgorging a steady stream of pale smoke into the darkening sky. The chimneys were calling to him. It was time to go back.
Plunged into the criminal underworld of Victorian London, Billy the chimney sweep knows he must fight – or die. But with notorious gang leader Archie Miller closing in on him, every turn he takes only leads to more trouble.
When the ‘Poor Man’s Earl’ offers Billy a chance to exchange his gangland life for an education, Billy must decide if his pride is too high a price to pay, and whether turning on Archie will mean freedom – or certain death.
A thrilling story of faith and survival, based on the work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury.
Matthew Wainwright, Children's Author 