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Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London
Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London is the first novel in a series of young adult books written by Keith Mansfield and published by Quercus. The book opens on the thirteenth birthday of the title character and is written entirely from Johnny Mackintosh’s point of view.
Plot summary.
Set in the early 21st century, the book opens with Johnny Mackintosh living in a children's home (Ben Halader House) located in the fictional Castle Dudbury New Town in the county of Essex
on computer science books for Addison-Wesley (now part of Pearson), he returned to OUP as a commissioning editor of science books.
His first novel, "Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London" was long-listed for the New Horizons Book Award 2010 and shortlisted for the Concorde Book Award 2011. As a publisher at OUp, he signed Nick Bostrom for Bostrom's book "" on the dangers and opportunities of artificial intelligence and Robin Hanson's book on a future society dominated by the products of brain