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    Behind the Walls: A City Besieged

    By Nicola Pierce

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    Derry, 1689.

    An anonymous letter is read out saying that every last Protestant man,
    woman and child is to be murdered. Panic takes hold. Two teenage boys, Daniel and Robert Sherrard, help close the city gates against the approaching Catholic army.

    The siege has begun.

    Bombs rain down. Behind the walls, tensions grow day by day. Trapped, the people are injured, dying, starving. But there is no going back …

    Daniel and Robert are drawn into a fight to the end.

    'this fantastically written book will hook you from the start... this is historical fiction at its best.' The Guardian on City of Fate

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe O'Brien Press
    Release dateMar 2, 2015
    ISBN9781847177582
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    Behind the Walls: A City Besieged
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    Nicola Pierce

    Nicola Pierce published her first book for children, Spirit of the Titanic, to rave reviews and five printings within its first twelve months. City of Fate, her second book, transported the reader deep into the Russian city of Stalingrad during World War II. The novel was shortlisted for the Warwickshire School Library Service Award, 2014. Nicola went on to bring seventeenth-century Ireland vividly to life in Behind the Walls (2015), a rich emotional novel set in the besieged city of Derry in 1689, followed by Kings of the Boyne (2016), a moving and gritty account capturing the Battle of the Boyne (1690), which was shortlisted for the Literacy Association of Ireland (LAI) awards. In 2018 Nicola delved in to the true stories of the passengers, crew and the legacy of the fated ship Titanic, in her illustrated book of the same name. To read more about Nicola, go to her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/NicolaPierce-Author and on Twitter @NicolaPierce3.

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