You've Got Blackmail
By (Author) Rachel Wright
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
6th September 2007
Main
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
176
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 12mm
150g
Jaffa Cake junkie Lozzie Cracknell is a girl on the edge. She's been caught borrowing her sister Karen's stuff; her mum's possibly 'doing the do' with her worst teacher; and school bully and vanilla blancmange look-alike, Tonia Ravonia, is threatening to head-butt her halfway to the hospital. Still, looking on the bright side, at least she and her best mate, Dex, haven't stumbled across a seriously scary blackmail scam, or found themselves on the trail of the blackmailer. Yet.
Rachel Wright grew up in Bermuda, England, the Seychelles, and Fiji. She used to be an actress (after gaining a degree in drama in 1982, I worked as an actress for BBC Radio and various theatre companies, including one I co-founded with a friend) but now she writes full-time. (In 1989 I produced my first children's non-fiction book and it's been pretty non-stop since.) Her works include more than 40 children's non-fiction books on numerous subjects including historical events, the arts, unexplained phenomena and criminal investigation. (I've also had published a dozen or so short stories featuring the Where's Wally characters created by Martin Handford.) And she has never knowingly blackmailed anyone...except, of course, her sister. (This last bit is rubbish, obviously, although I am wanted on five continents for extorting money with menaces.)