Andersen Press nets Kalu's dystopian YA novel set in world of Burgess' Three Bullets

Andersen Press has netted Peter Kalu’s One Drop, a dystopian young adult novel set in the same world as Melvin Burgess’ Three Bullets (Andersen). 

Editor Charlie Sheppard acquired world rights directly from the author. The novel will be published on 4th August 2022 and will be available alongside Three Bullets as part of a bundle on Andersen’s stand as part of the Young Adult Literature Convention. 

One Drop was written in an "ambitious and unique" partnership with Kalu working alongside Burgess and Tariq Mehmood to create a world set in a possible future Britain run by far-right extremists "The Bloods". The synopsis reads: "In this war-torn Britain One Drop sees inseparable Black Radicals, Axel and Dune, arrested and placed in a prison camp for those who defy the Bloods’ white supremacist government. The SIMs implanted in their heads brainwash them with the Bloods’ evil philosophy, and drones constantly monitor their movements and thoughts. In this living nightmare, the couple battle to keep their love alive and to break free. The odds on survival are long. Dune and Axel have very different takes on how to escape. But when things come to a head, will their love hold them together and set them free, or will it tear them apart?"