How would you feel if you woke up and found another head growing out of your neck? A living, breathing, TALKING head, with a rude, sharp tongue and an evil sense of humour. It knows all your darkest thoughts and its not afraid to say what it thinks . . . to ANYBODY.

That's what happens to eleven-year-old Richard Westlake, and life becomes very, very complicated.

Part thriller, part horror, part comedy this is one of the most riveting novels about fear and friendship that you will ever read.

Andy Mulligan won the 2011 Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize, and his international bestseller,Trash, is now a major film directed by Stephen Daldry and with screenplay by Richard Curtis.

Andy Mulliganwas brought up in South London. He worked as a theatre director for ten years, before travels in Asia prompted him to retrain as a teacher. He has taught English and Drama in Britain, India, Brazil and the Philippines.

Andy's novelTrashhas been published in twenty-two languages and is now a Bafta-nominated major film directed by Stephen Daldry and scripted by Richard Curtis.