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Note for readers outside of the uk
While we always encourage purchasing directly from our website – as this benefits both the charity and the author – we understand that international postage has become increasingly expensive. As a charity press, we’re unable to offer free postage and the current shipping cost to addresses outside of the UK is higher than we feel is fair to ask readers to pay.
For that reason, we recommend ordering your print copy of Blood Red Sky through your country’s Amazon listing, where you can access Amazon Prime delivery. Or, visit your local bookshop and ask them about stocking Blood Red Sky! You can also order the eBook directly through Arkbound here, which (of course) has no postage. Thank you for visiting the Arkbound bookshop, and please continue supporting small presses by ordering directly whenever you can! Any questions, please email hello@arkbound.com.
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Praise for Blood Red Sky
Graeme Armstrong, author of Scots Book of the Year, ‘The Young Team’, says:
An important read about the glamour free YOI custody experience in Scotland for young people, anyone working around or concerned with youth justice (we all should be!).
Fiona Dyer, Director, Children & Young People’s Centre for Justice, says:
Despite the darkness that Blood Red Sky explores, this is not a hopeless book. What Sara has done so well is to balance truth with hope and show that with the right support, change is possible. Cycles can be broken. Futures can be reimagined. Relationships can heal. This is not wishful thinking – it is a reflection of what happens when compassion, courage, and understanding meet action.
Chris Wild, National Youth Advisor for Young People and author of ‘The State of It’, says:
Blood Red Sky shines a harsh light on youth justice in lockdown – a powerful story of love, loss, and the fight for truth.
Jennifer Horgan, author of ‘O Captain, My Captain': One Teacher's Call for Change…’ says:
Realist fiction at its most powerful
Gwen Adshead, co-author of BBC Book of the Week, ‘The Devil You Know’, says:
A necessary light of compassion in the dark shadow of social exclusion.
Gráinne Murphy, author of 'Winter People', says:
A deeply affecting look at the impact of intergenerational poverty and violence on family bonds and teenagers' perceptions of inevitability and their own power and choices.
Nicola Garrard, author of 'On the Edge', says:
Hard-hitting, immersive and poignant.
About the Author, Sara Cullen
Sara Cullen is an Irish writer living in Fife, Scotland. Sara’s commitment to writing for social justice began in her teens when she joined Amnesty International and corresponded with a pen pal on death row in Oklahoma. Inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird at age 13 (thanks to her English teacher), Sara pursued a degree in English Literature from University College Cork and later spent 17 years teaching English in Scottish high schools. She also served as a Guidance Teacher in areas of high deprivation.
Sara’s dedication to child welfare led her to work in the Public Protection Unit and earn a qualification in Child Welfare and Protection from the University of Stirling. Her writing reflects her belief that books have the power to change the world and her commitment to amplifying the voices of care-experienced children who have encountered the justice system at a young age.
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