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Looking back at 2023 It’s a cliché to say this year has brought plenty of highs and lows, but for once, I feel like this year is deserving of that moniker. The year started on a deep low, with news that the publisher of my debut children’s book might go out of business. Having signed [...]

Megan Williams is Pax and Samuel’s friend at Scholastic Parliament. All three of them are members of the Judges’ party – one of four groups vying for the end-of-year Parliamentary Polls award. It has been a long time since the Judges won the trophy. But with Megan’s prowess in athletics and gymnastics, not to mention [...]

Samuel Banton is Pax’s roommate at Scholastic Parliament. His family are descendants of Jamaican immigrants from a hundred years ago who have never strayed from the capital. Samuel’s father used to work as an engineer in the mines deep below New London, while his mother works as a chemist for the Worshipful Company of Clothmakers. [...]

Silas Letherington has been Lord Mayor of New London for five years, having worked his way up through the ranks of the Council. Ever since The Great Divide, when the country was split into the Guild of Cities and the Countryside Alliance, Silas has wanted to rule the capital. Now that he does, he has [...]

Pax was born in New London as 45B1, a product of the Artificial Birth Youth Service Scheme (or ABYSS for short). Now twelve, he has toiled at Workhouse Five for many years. On top of the verti-farms, he welcomes the peace and tries to imagine what life must be like beyond The Wall. Back at [...]