New film tie-in edition of this classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre, and will see a major film adaptation in 2014, starring Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. Ages: 11+.

LOIS LOWRY, author of over thirty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal for The Giver and Number the Stars,was born on the 20th of March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. She went to Brown University, but left to get married and a raise a family of four children. She settled in Maine, and returned to college receiving a degree from the University of Southern Maine. She fulfilled a childhood dream when she started writing in the 1970s.