TRASH is published by Random House, and is available at all good bookshops, or through the usual on-line stores. I also get requests for a sequel, but that's not going to happen: the book ends just where it needs to end.' A school in Indonesia staged it as a piece of dance-drama, and I'm often asked to talk about how it came to be written. Schools all over the world are studying it, and I visited a primary school last year that had turned two year-six classrooms into a 'Trash' installation. 'It's a fast-moving thriller,' says Andy, 'and – yes – its popularity still surprises me. The movie hit cinemas in 2014, directed by Stephen Daldry and scripted by Richard Curtis. The novel was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and has been translated into thirty-five languages. 'Trash' was published by the legendary David Fickling, whose credits include 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. And it's three street-boys against the world. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man's mission to put right a terrible wrong. Hounded by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking and fast-talking to stay ahead. Soon he and his friends are running for their lives.

A small leather bag falls into his hands. Then one unlucky-lucky day, the world turns upside down. TRASH by ANDY MULLIGAN (PB) ENGLISH NOVEL TANNING AND FOXING 232 pages The books condition can be seen at the photos above. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping on it.

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