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20th March 2006ISBN
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A Darkling Plain
Philip Reeve
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Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2006. By Hugh (10) - It is a brilliant mix of action, suspense and emotion. I love how you can really understand the character's feelings. Hester isn't just Hester, but a sad woman who lives with a robot. She has a kind heart but pretends not to show it. I have now read the full series and I will be sad because there won't be another! To read the full series in order then start with Mortal Engines, then Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and end with A Darkling Plain
Synopsis
A Darkling Plain by Philip ReeveA Darkling Plain is the brilliant ending to an award winning sequence that began with Mortal Engines. It is six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton. Wren Natsworthy and her father have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Tom is troubled by Hester’s disappearance and meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London …
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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