Books by Andrea Badenoch

Loving Geordie (2002)

Loving Geordie is published in a German translation by Nina Bader, as Schlafende Engel (Random House, 2005)

It has also been translated into Dutch by Meile Snijders as Leslie's wereld (De Geus, 2004).

A shocking coming-of-age crime story, full of wonderful characters.

It is August 1960 and Glue Terrace, overlooking the River Tyne, is due to be demolished. All that remains is the abandoned rubbish of former lives. The residents themselves have already been shifted. In the midst of this desolation lives 15-year-old Leslie, whose childhood is rapidly being snatched from him. Determined to find a job, full of worries about unpaid bills and his drug-filled mother and vulnerable younger brother Geordie, his summer holidays suddenly become a journey of discovery and revelation. For in a derelict building, more a bombsite than a home, identical twins Maureen and Muriel are found dead. The house had been their summer playground. But now they are lying side by side, like two sleeping angels on a tomb, a dark gash in each of their necks.

Suspicion immediately falls on 'Geordie the dafty', who discovered the bodies. But Leslie is convinced of his brother's innocence, and is determined to prove it to everyone else...

Cath Staincliffe wrote a review of Loving Geordie for Tangled Web.

It was nominated for the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (which is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries).

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Blink (2002)

Blink has been translated into German, as Verschwiegen ist nur der Tod by Sonja Schuhmacher and Rita Seuß (Random House, 2001)

and into French by Florence Vuarnesson as L'étoile de sang (Éditions du Masque, 2004).

"There is a talented writer on show here."

Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

"Shockingly atmospheric and evocative."

Jake Arnott

Martin Edwards wrote a review of Blink for Deadly Pleasures.

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Driven (1999)

Read a review of Die Nacht schenkt dir den Tod

A novel of psychological suspense with an urban bite. On a hot city night Jaz is celebrating her 21st birthday with her friends Trace and Hamm. Across town, her boyfriend, Fat Andy, lies dead on their bed, his throat cut. Jaz is convinced that she knows the killer's identity.

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Mortal (1998)

Und nichts est, wie es scheint, the German translation of Mortal

Before Camilla Harding died she told Imogen Webb that someone was threatening her - someone she knew. Imogen's efforts to unmask the killer lead her to the conclusion that her friend may have been the architect of her own death.

Andrew Taylor wrote a review of Mortal for Tangled Web.

Anthologies

Wild Cards : The Virago Book of "Writing Women" (edited, with Debbie Taylor, 1999)

Wild Cards was the second Virago Anthology of new writing by women following the success of The Nerve the previous year. The 24 contributors - 12 prose writers, 12 poets - were chosen from thousands of submissions and the book aimed to represent "some of the best of new writing". Most contributors had been published before, in various small magazines. Most wrote with what the editors describe as the "broad cultural concerns of race, class, family, sex and sexuality" in mind.
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Jimmy's Story

published in Fresh Blood 3, edited by Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski (Do-Not Press, 1999)
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Dog Leg

published in Biting Back, an anthology of new fiction from the north, from Iron Press.

Belter's Mugging

published in Crime in the City (The Official Crime Writers' Association Anthology 2003), edited by Martin Edwards, (Do-Not Press, 2002)
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Angel's Seat

published in Green for Danger (The Official Anthology of the Crime Writers' Association), edited by Martin Edwards, (Do-Not Press, 2003)
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