{"id":430,"date":"2023-02-24T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T08:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=430"},"modified":"2023-02-24T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T08:57:27","slug":"the-outlaws-scarlett-browne-by-jonathan-stroud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2023\/02\/24\/the-outlaws-scarlett-browne-by-jonathan-stroud\/","title":{"rendered":"The outlaws Scarlett &amp; Browne by Jonathan Stroud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51wthQofReL.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" \/>Set in a broken, future <\/span>England, where gunfights and monsters collide, this is the exciting first title in a phenomenal fantasy teen series by the bestselling children&#8217;s novelist.\u201cYou won&#8217;t be able to put this down. A classic in the making.\u201d<span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0\u2013 Eoin Colfer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerfectly paced, beautifully written and bursting with black humour and bold ideas.\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u2013 Philip Reeve<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cImaginative, original, taut and with multi-layered protagonists&#8230; A wild ride.\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u2013 Jo Cotterill<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Scarlett and Browne<\/span>\u00a0is phenomenal, unputdownable storytelling of the highest order.\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u2013 Piers Torday<\/span><\/p>\n<p>England has been radically changed by a series of catastrophes \u2013 large cities have disappeared and London has been replaced by a lagoon. The surviving population exists in fortified towns where they cling to traditional ways, while strangely evolved beasts prowl the wilderness beyond. Conformity is rigidly enforced and those who fall foul of the rules are persecuted: some are killed, others are driven out into the wilds. Only a few fight back \u2013 and two of these outlaws, Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne, display an audacity and talent that makes them legends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in a broken, future England, where gunfights and monsters collide, this is the exciting first title in a phenomenal fantasy teen series by the bestselling children&#8217;s novelist.\u201cYou won&#8217;t be able to put this down. A classic in the making.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Eoin Colfer \u201cPerfectly paced, beautifully written and bursting with black humour and bold ideas.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Philip &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2023\/02\/24\/the-outlaws-scarlett-browne-by-jonathan-stroud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The outlaws Scarlett &amp; Browne by Jonathan Stroud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}