A darkly compelling historical fantasy, for teenagers and adults, about an orphan boy's life of scavenging, conniving and survival against the odds in the villainous world of a medieval city.
Go back 500 years. You're alone. What does it take to survive? If you do survive, what kind of person have you become?
On the streets of a medieval town, an abandoned child scavenges to stay alive.
A slaughterman takes him in, teaches him the secrets of his bloody trade. But when the slaughterman is gone, the boy is adrift in a world of cheats, murderers and thieves.
In Slaughterboy beats a town's dark heart, and destruction comes in many forms.
