Name: Impossible Creatures
Price: 12.38 EUR
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Author: Katherine Rundell
ISBN: 9781408897430

Type

Physical Book

Author

Katherine Rundell

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781408897430

Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell (Author) · Bloomsbury Publishing · Paperback

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Synopsis "Impossible Creatures"

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Children's Fiction Book of the Year 2024

'It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.'

A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythic creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands, where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected for thousands of years from being discovered; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.

Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christopher’s world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer, and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truth – with unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love demands of us.

Katherine Rundell

(Author)

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Katherine Rundell (Kent, Inglaterra, 1987) ha vivido en Harare, Bruselas y Londres. Es autora de las novelas Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (2014), The Wolf Wilder (2015) y Sophie en los cielos de París (2014), con la que ha conseguido numerosos reconocimentos y premios, entre los que se cuentan el Waterstones Children#s Book y el Blue Peter Book. Es profesora asociada en el All Souls College de Oxford y en su tiempo libre disfruta practicando el funambulismo y encaramándose a los tejados de las facultades de la universidad.

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