Tom and Iris watch the enemy aircraft coming down towards the trees and make up their minds to go hunting for souvenirs. But they find more than they bargained for: the injured pilot. And then the air-raid warning sounds and they all have to take shelter. While the two English children and the teenage German pilot are confined together, with bombs falling all around them, Tom and Iris listen to Martin's story...James Riordan's first novel "Sweet Clarinet" was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and won the Nasen Specisl Education Needs Award. James Riordan has earned a reputation for writing about war in a powerful and uncompromising way.
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James Riordan grew up during the war. After he left school he worked as a postman, a barman, a crate stacker, a railway clerk and a double bass player before doing his national service. After demobilization he did a joint honours degree in Social Science and Russian and then spent five years in Moscow working as a translator. Back in England he lectured at B
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