2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize

"Marcus Sedgwick has won the 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize for his gothic novel My Swordhand is Singing, published in the UK by Orion. My Swordhand is Singing is a sinister tale of a woodcutter and his son who fight the legendary undead in the wintry isolated forests of seventeenth-century Romania. The novel is a thrilling and menacing story which draws heavily on Sedgwick’s extensive research of the vampire legend in Eastern Europe"