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The Ransom of Dond

This novella for 8+ age group is written by award winning Siobhan Dowd (she has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, long-listed for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Booktrust Teenage Prize, won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, and the CBI Bisto Book of the Year Award, Children's Book Ireland, the Branford Boase Award, NASEN/TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award, Bisto Book of the Year prize and was shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award for other titles) is based in pre-Roman Ireland on an invented island.

The creation of a sense of place in the illustration for this publication is entirely imagined, as primary research is impossible, and the emphasis is on creating drama and atmosphere within a convincing imagined historical setting.