When David Almond's novel Skellig (Delacorte, May) appeared last year in the author's native England, his publisher, Hodder Children's Books, had to go back to press after only Continue reading » ...

By this standard, David Denby succeeds marvelously in “Eminent Jews,” his portrait of four icons who defined American culture in the second half of the 20th century: the humorist Mel Brooks ...

Northumberland-based Almond is the author of several novels, including his debut Skellig, which won the Carnegie Medal in 1998, and A Song for Ella Grey, which was on the first-ever YA Book Prize ...

Pleasingly, Mr Joshua’s talisman is the tender book Skellig by David Almond (1998). Almond is a former primary school teacher and a worthy role model himself.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ewan McGregor, Elton John's photos, Goldsmiths Prize winner Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, War memorials Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz, Contemporary war poetry J K ...

David Almond marks 25 years of his extraordinary book, Skellig, with a walk from Seahouses to Bamburgh in Northumberland. As he tells Clare, it's a landscape that has long inspired his imagination ...

In comparison to David Almond’s Skellig, about a bin-dwelling angel, Melvin Burgess’s Junk, a young-adult drama about heroin, or Jacqueline Wilson’s The Story of Tracy Beaker, about a girl ...

Skellig author and Hans Christian Anderson Award winner David Almond is to publish an "intense and compelling" coming-of-age middle-grade novel about "hope, friendship and conquering your fears ...