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Stone Cold (Swindells novel)

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Cover artist
  
Paul Hunt.

Publisher
  
Heinemann

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Originally published
  
1993

Original language
  
English

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
1993

Pages
  
132 pp (first edition)

Author
  
Robert Swindells

Awards
  
Carnegie Medal

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Characters
  
Gail, Shelter, Carole, Link, Lesley, Link's Mother, Ginger, Nick, Vince

Genres
  
Young adult fiction, Literary realism, Horror fiction

Similar
  
Robert Swindells books, Carnegie Medal winners, Young adult fiction books

Stone Cold is a realistic young-adult novel by Robert Swindells, published by Heinemann in 1993. Set on the streets of London, the first-person narrative switches between Link, a newly homeless sixteen-year-old adjusting to his situation, and Shelter, an ex-army officer scorned after being dismissed from his job, supposedly on 'medical grounds'.

Swindells won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject

WorldCat participating libraries report holding Danish, German, Catalan, Slovenian, and Korean-language editions.

Television

In 1997, the novel was adapted for a television series of the same title, starring James Gaddas, Peter Howitt and Elizabeth Rider, produced by Andy Rowley which was nominated for a Best Children's Drama Award at BAFTA. The short series was shown on Scene BBC Two. It can also be viewed on YouTube.

References

Stone Cold (Swindells novel) Wikipedia