The Ragged People: a story of the post-plague years

Life in the refugee camp is hard for Dan and his brother Rick. They sleep huddled together with a thousand other refugees in an enormous warehouse, and they spend all day queuing for food and water and medicine, watched over by soldiers in anti-contamination masks. And all around them, people are dying: dying from hunger, dying from one of the new plagues, or dying simply because they have lost the will to live.

Selected from a line-up by the intimidating Mr Wiley, the boys leap at a chance to leave the camp and go to live in the Brightwell Community, but their hopes are soon dashed. Is a life of forced labour in a land at the mercy of raiding gangs and ever-mutating plagues really any better than the UN refugee camp had been?

A gripping post-apocalypse story of two brothers struggling to survive in a Britain devastated by biological warfare, from the author of the bestselling vampire novel Piggies.

Praise for Nick Gifford's work:

'The king of children's horror' - Sunday Express

'Guaranteed to scare your socks off' - Glasgow Herald

'A bold, shocking and completely unputdownable horror story' - Waterstone's Books Quarterly

'A cut above the usual horror tale' - School Librarian

'Really spooky! I'd definitely try out other books by this author as Nick Gifford makes you want to keep reading' Teen Titles

'One of the most original horror tales of recent times ... you'll have to go back quite a way to find a debut novel that is quite as striking as Piggies' - Rhyl and Prestatyn Journal

Nick Gifford is the bestselling author of Piggies, Flesh and Blood, Incubus and Erased, and he has been described by the Sunday Express as 'The king of children's horror'. His work has been optioned for movies and has featured on various bestseller lists, at one time out-ranking JK Rowling's Harry Potter books.