Bøker av Emily McKay

This is What was Next is a collection of contemporary poetry that binds a profound love and grief for the natural world with considerations of atheism, exploring and ultimately celebrating the freedom and healing to be found in self-honesty. McKay delights in sudden leaps between hallucinatory lyricism and meticulously patterned language games; between the starkly personal and tongue-and-cheek musings of artistic self-promotion.

More gripping than The Hunger Games, The Vault by Emily McKay is the third in this series following on from The Farm and The Lair. In a world where vampires rule and teenager humans are quarantined as a food source, there is only one choice: resist or die.But fighting the Ticks comes at a terrible cost to twin sisters Mel and Lily and their best friend Carter - with Lily exposed to the Tick virus and lying in a coma, it's up to Mel and Carter to search for the cure - but time isn't on their side. With every passing heartbeat, Mel is becoming more and more purely vampire. Now their only choice is to split up in a race to save Lily - and to save humanity.

More terrifying than The Passage, more gripping than The Hunger Games, The Lair by Emily McKay is the hotly anticipated sequel to The FarmIn the battle against evil, humanity is heading for extinction. Twin sisters Lily and Mel have bravely escaped the Farm - a place where young people are bred to die. Now separated, they must continue the fight on their own.After making it to a resistance base camp, Lily decides to make the difficult trek north to Canada - and safety. Meanwhile, Mel is being taught how to survive by the vampire who turned her.But when a monstrous betrayal places Lily in mortal danger, Mel must set out to find her and save her sister, But in the fight against the ultimate evil, can both hope to survive?Praise for The Farm'Equal parts Resident Evil and Hunger Games - and just as thrilling' Chloe NeillEmily McKay is the author of The Farm, which is also published by Penguin. She loves to read, shop, and geek out about movies. When she's not writing, she reads online gossip and bakes luscious desserts. She pretends that her weekly yoga practice balances out both of those things. She lives in central Texas with her family and her crazy pets.

Emily McKay's The Farm is an addictive novel about twin sisters and their fight for survival in a world nearing chaos. For Lily and her twin sister Mel there is only the Farm . . .It's a prison, a blood bank, a death camp - where fear and paranoia rule. But it's also home, of sorts. Because beyond the electric fence awaits a fate much, much worse. But Lily has a plan. She and Mel are going to escape - into the ravaged land outside, a place of freedom and chaos and horrors. Except Lily hasn't reckoned on two things: first, her sister's ability to control the horrors; and, secondly, on those out there who desperately want to find and control Mel. Mel's growing power might save the world, or utterly end it. But only Lily can protect Mel from what is to come . . .The Farm takes you into a terrifying future where civilization has ended, and leaves you there - fearful, gasping and begging to escape. Emily McKay's gripping book is not going to let you. Praise for Emily McKay:'Equal parts Resident Evil and Hunger Games - and just as thrilling The Farm is a gripping dystopian tale that pits humans against humans in the race for survival in her remarkable and haunting world. I can't wait to sink my teeth into the next instalment!' Chloe NeillEmily McKay loves to read, shop, and geek out about movies. When she's not writing, she reads online gossip and bakes luscious desserts. She pretends that her weekly yoga practice balances out both of those things. She lives in central Texas with her family and her crazy pets. She also co-writes young adult as Ivy Adams.