Books with author Robert Swindells

An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?

The skeleton lay on its back. The jaws gaped and one arm lay across the chest as though flung there to ward off a blow The Tangle is a long, narrow stretch of derelict land, a wilderness of weeds and rubbish with an old railway tunnel yawning blackly at one end. No-one – not even bullying Gary Deacon – dares venture far into its sooty darkness. But it is here that twelve-year-old Tan and his friends make a grisly discovery – a discovery that is to plunge them into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel slowly unfolds its sinister secret