Hachette India

Nightspark

Michael Mann

Catch the wind. Find your freedom.

Having escaped from the half-bombed, blackened power station where he was being imprisoned, 12-year-old Luke is finally reunited with his family above ground.

But not everyone made it out of the power station, and the guilt over friends left behind is eating Luke alive.

With the help of ghost-girl named Alma and his friend Jess, Luke will have to face his past and confront his deepest fear, to try to save Ravi, the friend who was there for him in his darkest hours.

A riveting, magical adventure set on the the waterways of a richly reimagined London.

Michael Mann

Michael Mann is a primary school teacher by day and mostly writes when he should be sleeping at night. He was a winner of SCBWI's Undiscovered Voices 2020 and the 2019 London Writer's Award (Spread the Word). He is passionate about diversity in children's literature as a person of British and Indian heritage.

Michael was born in London but moved to North Yorkshire when he was ten. He now lives with his partner and children in London. He's a fan of board games reading cloud spotting and outdoor swimming. He swam from England to France across the English Channel as part of a team of six. He won his first writing competition at school aged 10 for a poem about potatoes. He had to shake hands with a giant potato in front of the whole school and still has the photo to prove it.