James Watson

James Watson is a prize-winning author of political thrillers for Young Adults. TALKING IN WHISPERS was a Carnegie Award winner. It won the UK The Other Award and the German Buxtehuder Bull Prize. His JUSTICE OF THE DAGGER was a Waterstone's Book of the Month.

He says, 'In my stories young people find themselves caught up in the eyes of the storm. They struggle to cope with the conflicts of the adult world.In THE FREEDOM TREE, for example, Will Viljeon experiences the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Amy Douglas in TICKET TO PRAGUE faces a different challenge, to nurture Josef, an exiled Czech poet, back into life from a self-imposed exile.

'Then, in FAIR GAME: THE STEPS OF ODESSA, there is Natasha, the talented and ambitious football star dreaming of playing for the Ukraine Under-19s, only there is a problem - her father: Victor is an investigative journalist and the report he is writing about government corruption will put him and his family in peril from Ukraine's secret police: uneven playing fields in soccer and in real life.

JUSTICE OF THE DAGGER decribes the fight-back in East Timor of Lyana, beautiful and resolute, and Muyu, the son of the forest chieftain, against the advance of the timber companies. It is a powerful story about how modern commercialism threatens the natural environment.Five of James' novels are available on Amazon Kindle: The Freedom Tree, Talking in Whispers, Ticket to Prague, Justice of the Dagger and Fair Game: The Steps of Odessa. The UK magazine Books for Keeps wrote of James Watson, his 'pedigree as a writer of political novels is impeccable'. The Teacher magazine praised FAIR GAME warmly: 'It is a remarkable story - both memorable and readable'.