Three teenagers – a royal prince, a feisty journalist and a musician – have burning ambitions which must go on hold to help save the planet from global meltdown, adult apathy, political corruption and designer trousers. Let alone awesome technology produced by the Company of Dekaydence, including the wild metal haggoids.
What they said about Black Light:
‘a very exciting read . . . had me on the edge of my seat’
Benjy Taylor, The Independent, in the best of the year’s fiction: boys’ own adventures
‘very exciting and cool adventure . . . really funny . . . also very weird and offbeat . . . A can’t miss book!’
Andrew Weatherston, Teen Titles
‘ . . . a controversial, cutting-edge book . . . exciting, scary and hard-hitting . . . it is also great fun.’
Scott Pack
‘A wholly innovative thriller . . .with the originality of Alice in Wonderland . . . has the eccentric peculiarity of a modern classic, beguiling you with plot, pace and passion.’
John Lloyd, Waterstones.
‘a racy, pacy crazy book. Like Philip Pullman on speed!’
Piers Plowright
‘a rollicking read that a modern Jonathan Swift would have been proud to produce. Beneath the entertainment is a disturbing allegorical tale, packed with characters unnervingly reminiscent of those who have been making the news seem stranger than fiction.’
Patience Wheatcroft
‘Black Light is a fast-paced, well-plotted thriller filled with futuristic details and good, old-fashioned drama. A definite "must-read," the book's sense of place and sympathetic characters will linger in the reader's mind. Highly recommended.’
Fran Crumpton, The Book Partnership
Dekaydence and its Sticky Rock cafés, designer trousers and music have all but destroyed the GeeZers. But now there’s a harder edged bunch of teenagers ready to take their place in the fight to save the planet. They call themselves the Real GeeZers and one of their number, the mysterious Phoenix, is prepared to kill. But Will, the Real GeeZers’ leader, is having doubts about what he’s doing. While Ruby Q and Piccolo have to work fast to save a famous musician from shrinking. And that’s without worrying about revolutions in Dekaydence technology, including the new liz’oid, and the maddest of their number, Colin.
Who is Lorenzo di’Abalo, the man behind Dekaydence? What is his game plan? And while teenagers continue the fight, will adults ever realise what is going on in this fast disintegrating society?