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4th May 2009ISBN
9781407111131Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve
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New Edition. Winner of the prestigious 2008 Carnegie.
Prize-winning author Philip Reeve gives a brilliant new take on the legend of King Arthur. Myrddin rides with Arthur spinning tales for and about him but what is the truth and can Gwyna discover it? Bridging the past and present Here Lies Arthur is the story of how heroes and the legends about them are made.
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Synopsis
Here Lies Arthur by Philip ReeveGwyna is a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard - a traveller and spinner of tales. But Myrddin transfroms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy. Without Gwyna, Myrddin will not be able to work the most glorious transformation of all - and turn the leader of a raggle-taggle war-band into King Arthur.
Reviews
'A brilliant verison of the Camelot story' Guardian
'Ripping and intelligent' Sunday Times
'Brilliant ... an absorbing and emotionally enagaging work' The Times
'Historical writing at its best' Independent
'A masterpiece' Daily Telegraph
About The Author
Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for years while also producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects. Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons and jokes for around forty books, including the best-selling Scholastic series Horrible Histories, as well as Murderous Maths and Dead Famous. He's been writing stories since he was five, but Mortal Engines was the first to be published.
Mortal Engines defies easy categorisation. It is a gripping adventure story set in an inspired fantasy world, where moving cities trawl the globe. A magical and unique read, it immediately caught the attention of readers and reviewers and won several major awards. Three more Hungry Cities novels followed, and Philip's latest project are the Fever Crumb books, prequels set centuries before the events of Mortal Engines. Philip has also written Buster Bayliss, a series for younger readers, and stand alone novels including Here Lies Arthur, which won the Carnegie Medal. Philip lives in Devon with his wife and son and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading.
Philip Reeve's publisher, Marion Lloyd, describes his Mortal Engines series:
“..inspiring adventure stories, in whose futuristic, post-apocalyptic setting, moving cities trawl the Earth. They attack and consume each other in wastelands where natural resources are scarce, and Ancient technology is fought for. Fast-paced, sometimes violent, always surprising and original, Reeve’s epic sequence of love, war and adventure are richly rewarding for both adults and children.”
Praise for Philip Reeve:
‘Conveys big truths while being witty and playful...clever and moving’ The Sunday Times on Fever Crumb
‘Intelligent, funny and wise’ Literary Review on Fever Crumb
‘I felt as if the pages themselves were charged with electricity...
Fever Crumb is a terrific read, a sci-fi Dickens, full of orphans,
villains, chases and mysteries’ Frank Cottrell Boyce, Guardian on Fever
Crumb
‘Reeve drives his juggernaut of a talent through the streets of a
mob-crazed futuristic London with Cecil B DeMille grandeur. Resent
being suckered into sequels? Fever Crumb is a complete story – but it may prove addictive’
Geraldine McCaughrean, Daily Telegraph on Fever Crumb
‘A bold, brightly honed narrative that grabs and holds the attention from the start’
Interzone on Fever Crumb
‘If you’ve never read a Philip Reeve novel before, you’re in for a
treat. His storytelling abilities are accomplished and his use of
language most ingenious – and irreverent’
Waterstone’s Books Quarterly on Fever Crumb
‘A masterpiece’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Big, brave, brilliant’ Guardian
‘A majestic achievement’ Sunday Times
‘Mind bogglingly well-imagined’ Independent
‘Marvellous… utterly captivating in its imaginative scope and energy’ Daily Telegraph
‘The Mortal Engines quartet is one of the most inventive and ambitious
children’s novel sequences of recent years’ Nicolette Jones
‘Brilliant… an absorbing and emotionally engaging work’ Amanda Craig, The Times
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