Xtreme
2 total works
Acclaim for "Xtreme: The Edge": "Written in short, episodic bursts awash with snarling dialogue intercut with bathos, this pacily energetic first novel is highly readable" - "Book for Keeps" magazine. Following the success of "Xtreme: The Edge", Ben Bo turns from snow-boarding to surfing in this hip and pacy read. Jonah, a fifteen year old surfer living in Western Ireland, is struggling to make sense of his life. Discovering that he has a twin living in America changes Jonah's life completely - and takes him into the very eye of the storm. This is a terrifically pacy adventure, incredibly readable. The Author: As well as "Extreme: the Edge", Vivian Richardson (Ben Bo) is the author of Surf Shredder, and the illustrator of "The Extraordinary Adventures of Joe Sloop", also published by Bloomsbury. Vivian Richardson lives in London with his wife who is a teacher.
"Written in short, episodic bursts awash with snarling dialogue this pacily energetic first novel is highly readable." - "Book for Keeps" magazine. Declan Murray has made mistakes. Caught up in a downward spiral of graffiti-spraying and theft, and narrowly escaping death in a warehouse fire which takes the lives of his friends, he has been given a second chance - a re-start programme in the Canadian mountains. But second chances aren't easy. For a start he is being tormented by the ghosts of the UXT's, and secondly he is being tormented by other people - like Big Foot who is unnervingly always one step ahead of Declan, and Mad Dog, eerily like someone Declan knew in his old life. A fantastic, fast-paced and exciting snow-boarding story, from an author to watch. Vivian Richardson (Ben Bo) is the author of the sequel to "Xtreme: The Edge", "Xtreme: Skullcrack", and also "Surfshredder", also published by Bloomsbury. He lives in South-West London with his wife, who is Australian and a teacher.