Simon es el autor de la serie 'Itch', una colección de obras que reflejan el estilo de las novelas de espionaje juvenil más vendidas. Su extensa carrera en la radio, incluyendo roles destacados en BBC Radio 1 y BBC Radio 2, ha sido reconocida con numerosos galardones. A través de su escritura, Simon crea narrativas emocionantes llenas de personajes cautivadores, diseñadas para atraer y entusiasmar a los lectores jóvenes. Su enfoque enfatiza la acción trepidante y las tramas intrincadas, lo que resulta en una experiencia de lectura inmersiva y aventurera.
Renowned for his engaging presence, Simon Mayo has been a prominent figure in British radio since 1981, currently hosting 'Drivetime' on BBC Radio 2 and co-presenting a film review show on BBC Radio 5 Live. His accolades include the title of radio broadcaster of the year and speech broadcaster of the year, highlighting his impact on the medium. For fans of his work and his ITCH book series, further information can be found on his dedicated website.
The book explores the unique experience of audience members in the theatre, highlighting the heightened awareness and insight they gain while watching performances. It delves into the emotional connections viewers form with characters, often perceiving nuances and underlying tensions that elude those on stage. This sense of omniscience fosters a cleverness in the audience, allowing them to engage deeply with the narrative and characters, enhancing their overall theatrical experience.
After almost poisoning his whole class with arsenic gas, going on the run from a psychotic science teacher and nearly dying of radiation poisoning, life is getting back to normal for Itchingham Lofte - at least, as normal as it can be when you have a round-the-clock detail of government security guards watching your every move. But sinister forces are still hunting for Element 126 and will stop at nothing to find out where Itch has hidden the precious radioactive rocks. With the help of his sister Chloe and his tomboy cousin Jack, Itch has to put 126 beyond the reach of unscrupulous scientists and international terrorists forever. It's time to save the world. Again. The second book in the explosively exciting ITCH series. 'A great debut. You'll be itching to read more.' Anthony Horowitz
Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards those we experience as grounding our life-as offering us a promise of home-in a world that we supremely value. He also proposes that the child is supplanting the romantic partner as the supreme object of love.
Itchingham Lofte, known as Itch, is 14, and loves science and especially chemistry. He's also an element hunter: he's decided to collect all the elements in the periodic table. Which has some interesting and rather destructive results in his bedroom. Then, Itch makes a discovery. A new element, never seen before. (Publisher).
"What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed? That's the situation in which Ant finds herself - together with her little brother Mattie and their foster-parents, she's locked up in a new kind of family prison. None of the inmates are themselves criminals, but wider society wants them to do time for the unpunished 'heritage' crimes of their parents. Tensions are bubbling inside the London prison network Ant and Mattie call home - and when things finally erupt, they realize they've got one chance to break out. Everyone wants to see them punished for the sins of their mum and dad, but it's time for Ant to show the world that they're not to blame. A new nail-bitingly taught YA suspense thriller, from author of the bestselling ITCH series, Simon Mayo."
It starts quietly enough. A tick tick ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse - and then you pass it on.Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges, small outbreaks at first, contained groups of people, young and old, and suddenly it's a plague - and ten days later it's killing people. The hospitals are overflowing and there is no cure. There is a paranoid panic which sets friend against friend, neighbour against neighbour. Where does the world go from here?In the north London school where it is first discovered, head of English, Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. Even eminent bacteriologist and his partner Lilly Slater can't help him. But as the virus rips through the school and into the outside world, the world starts to take notice. Kit is more concerned about his students - and his young daughter, Rose - but little by little he gets sucked into where this mystery illness might have come from. And how it's going to threaten his world.Tick Tock is the compelling new novel from master storyteller and legendary DJ, Simon Mayo. It tells the story of a different kind of pandemic through the eyes of three people at the heart of the storm. Utterly exciting, urgently contemporary, piercingly insightful, it more than confirms the promise of his bestselling and acclaimed first thriller, Knife Edge.
"6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered. In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women across London have been targeted. For journalist Famie Madden, the horror unfolds as she arrives for the morning shift. The victims have one thing in common- they make up the investigations team at the news agency where Famie works. The question everyone's asking- what were they working on that could prompt such brutal devastation? As Famie starts to receive mysterious messages, she must find out whether she is being warned of the next attack, or being told that she will be the next victim..."--Publisher
1815: The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace - like home - is still a long way away.Inspired by a true story, Mad Blood Stirring tells of a few frantic months in the suffocating atmosphere of a prison awaiting liberation.* 'Wonderful - a story I never heard before, told with style, pace, character, texture, and tension ...
