Featured Books, with extracts, by Marcus Sedgwick
Saint Death
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award
In a Nutshell: Gangs dice with death under the gaze of
Mexican folk saint. A thought-fuelling thriller set in a
gang-run neighbourhood near the border of Mexico and El Norte
(America). The...
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Format: Paperback | Released 06/04/2017
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Saint Death
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 | In a
Nutshell: Gangs dice with death under the gaze of Mexican folk
saint. A thought-fuelling thriller set in a gang-run
neighbourhood near the border of Mexico and El Norte (America).
The...
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Format: Hardback | Released 06/10/2016
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The Ghosts of Heaven
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the UKLA 2016 Book Award in the 12 - 16
year old category. Shortlisted for the CILIP
Carnegie Medal 2016. This is a remarkable and surprising
book, just when you think...
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Format: Paperback | Released 05/03/2015
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The Ghosts of Heaven
Marcus Sedgwick
One of our Books of the Year 2014 - Shortlisted for the
Costa Children's Book Award 2014 This is a remarkable and
surprising book, just when you think you understand it, whoosh, the
unexpected taps you on the...
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Format: Hardback | Released 02/10/2014
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She is Not Invisible
Marcus Sedgwick
Longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Book Award
2014 When sixteen-year-old Laureth's father vanishes she
is determined to track him down. So determined that she flies to
New York to find him. But Laureth doesn't go alone; she takes
her...
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The Foreshadowing
Marcus Sedgwick
No child who reads this will ever sanction a war if they can help
it. Marcus brings the horrors of World War One to life in fiction
in the most dramatic of ways. It really is completely
compelling,...
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She is Not Invisible
Marcus Sedgwick
October 2013 Book of the Month When
sixteen-year-old Laureth's father vanishes she is determined to
track him down. So determined that she flies to New York to find
him. But Laureth doesn't go alone; she takes her seven year old...
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Format: Hardback | Released 03/10/2013
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Cudweed's Time Machine
Marcus Sedgwick
Meet Cudweed and his slightly – well, unusual family. One
day, feeling bored and anxious for teatime to arrive, Cudweed
decides to ‘borrow' his dad's time machine. Oh, his dad just
happens to be an inventor by the way. However,...
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Cudweed in Outer Space (Early Reader)
Marcus Sedgwick
Hilarious and madcap space adventures happen to Cudweed after he
builds a spaceship from a kit and sets off into the unknown with
only his pet monkey Fellah for company. What happens when he
hurtles off into the unknown and...
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Format: Paperback | Released 05/07/2012
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Elf Girl and Raven Boy : Fright Forest
Marcus Sedgwick
- illustrated by Pete Williamson
Shortlisted for the 2013 Leeds Book Award
- July 2012 Book of the Month. Humour, magic and the
altogether unexpected are woven together engagingly to create a
delightfully original adventure. Elf Girl and Raven Boy meet by
chance and soon...
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Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013
May 2012 Book of the Month. Prize-winning Marcus
Sedgwick's gift for powerful storytelling is at its very best in
this emotionally charged, no holds barred novel. When journalist
Eric Seven arrives...
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Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick
Prize-winning Marcus Sedgwick's gift for powerful storytelling is
at its very best in this emotionally charged, no holds barred
novel. When journalist Eric Seven arrives on Blessed Island with a
mission to uncover a mystery he is immediately captivated by...
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Format: Hardback | Released 06/10/2011
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Raven Mysteries 6 : Diamonds and Doom
Marcus Sedgwick
Prize-winning Marcus Sedgwick returns his readers to Castle
Otherhand and the hilarious and unlikely topsy turvy goings on
there. Things have gone from bad to worse at the Castle and now it
is up for sale. As Solstice records in...
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Cudweed's Birthday (Early Reader)
Marcus Sedgwick
- illustrated by Pete Williamson
Goth Froth for Early Readers. Cudweed wants a monkey for his
birthday in this brand new story featuring some of the characters
that have proved such a hit in the Raven Mysteries series for
slightly older kids but Cudweed's is...
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Format: Paperback | Released 01/07/2011
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White Crow
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011
Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic
thriller in which nothing can quite be taken for granted. Rebecca
is forced to abandon her bustling life in London for the...
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Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Most Fun Story
with Pictures*. As told by a raven, this Gothic horror
richly laced in humour is a delicious read – especially when
the moon is full! Castle Otherhand is beset...
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Magic and Mayhem
Marcus Sedgwick
Chaos strikes after a trip to the circus, and the castle is
suddenly filled with thieves, bunnies, and lethal cabbages, in the
fifth of Marcus Sedgwick's quirky mysteries.
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The Raven Mysteries 2: Ghosts and Gadgets
Marcus Sedgwick
There is hilarious fun to be had in these mystery stories about the
original, not to say odd, family who live in Otherhand Castle. Told
by Edgar the Raven whose views are sharp even if his perspective is
unusual, the...
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Raven Mysteries 4: Vampires and Volts
Marcus Sedgwick
This is the fourth title in a brilliant series of quirky tales for
7+ year olds featuring Edgar the faithful raven and the strange
Otherhand family who live in Otherhand Castle. Meet Minty who is
all in a fluster about...
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Format: Hardback | Released 07/10/2010
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The Raven Mysteries: Flood and Fang (Book One)
Marcus Sedgwick
A Richard and Judy Children's Book Club selection 2011
- Read by Yourself category
7+. Told from the bird's eye view of a resident
raven, this is a deliciously topsy-turvy comedy full of unusual
details. The Otherhand family are far...
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White Crow
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011
Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic
thriller in which nothing can quite be taken for granted. Rebecca
is forced to abandon her bustling life in London for the...
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Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize
2010. Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal
2010, the Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2010 and for the
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2009. A tense,
psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic...
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Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2011: Most Fun Story
with Pictures*. As told by a raven, this Gothic horror
richly laced in humour is a delicious read – especially when
the moon is full! Castle Otherhand is beset...
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The Raven Mysteries 2: Ghosts and Gadgets Audio CD
Marcus Sedgwick
There is hilarious fun to be had in these mystery stories about the
original, not to say odd, family who live in Otherhand Castle. Told
by Edgar the Raven whose views are sharp even if his perspective is
unusual, the...
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The Raven Mysteries 2: Ghosts and Gadgets
Marcus Sedgwick
There is hilarious fun to be had in these mystery stories about the
original, not to say odd, family who live in Otherhand Castle. Told
by Edgar the Raven whose views are sharp even if his perspective is
unusual, the...
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Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
2009 A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy
wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where a boy confronts a stranger
who has come to take revenge on his dead father. Gripping from
the...
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Format: Hardback | Released 16/07/2009
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Flood And Fang (The Raven Mysteries - Book One) - Audio
Marcus Sedgwick
CD - Audio. Read by Martin Jarvis. Told from the bird's eye view of
a resident raven, this is a deliciously topsy-turvy comedy full of
unusual details. The Otherhand family are far from normal and life
in Otherhand Castle is...
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The Kiss of Death
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick returns with a heart-stopping, beautifully crafted
novel featuring Peter from My Swordhand is Singing, set many years
later but still on the trail of the Shadow Queen. Venice, the
fabled city with its lapping waterways, crumbling magnificence,
and...
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The Raven Mysteries: Flood and Fang (Book One)
Marcus Sedgwick
A Richard and Judy Children's Book Club selection 2011 -
Read by Yourself category Told from the bird's eye view of
a resident raven, this is a deliciously topsy-turvy comedy full of
unusual details. The Otherhand family are far...
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Format: Hardback | Released 12/03/2009
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The Kiss Of Death
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick returns with a heart-stopping, beautifully crafted
novel featuring Peter from My Swordhand is Singing, set many years
later but still on the trail of the Shadow Queen. Venice, the
fabled city with its lapping waterways, crumbling magnificence,
and...
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Blood Red, Snow White
Marcus Sedgwick
Revolution! Arthur Ransome, an English journalist and writer, sets
off for Russia and soon finds himself at the heart of a network of
spies and so swept up in extreme danger as Trotsky and Lenin bring
down the Tsars and...
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Blood Red Snow White
Marcus Sedgwick
Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award
2007. The true story of master storyteller Arthur Ransome
provides the background for this large scale and absorbing story.
As a young man, Ransome was a journalist and, some thought, a spy,
in...
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My Swordhand Is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Book Trust Teenage book award 2007 and shortlisted
for the 2007 Carnegie Award and our favourite to win the award.
Highly readable yet thought-provoking, mysterious yet chilling, and
so perfectly paced that it is totally unputdownable. The quality
of...
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My Swordhand is Singing
Marcus Sedgwick
Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. Hugh
(12) - I loved it! I loved it even more than I loved The Book of
Dead Days (another of Marcus
Sedgwick’s
thrilling novels). Normally I
don’t like
horror books but this...
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The Foreshadowing
Marcus Sedgwick
No child who reads this will ever sanction a war if they can help
it. Marcus brings the horrors of World War One to life in fiction
in the most dramatic of ways. It really is completely
compelling,...
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Witch Hill
Marcus Sedgwick
A brilliant, dark and compelling read that cleverly interweaves the
story of a 17th century witch into the life of a boy whose world is
forever haunted by fire, for his family home was destroyed by it as
was his...
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Dark Flight Down
Marcus Sedgwick
This is the stunning conclusion to The Book of Dead Days, a
sweeping gothic fantasy that is packed with mystery and intrigue
and the loose ends from the earlier book are brought together
brilliantly into a story that is both...
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Book of Dead Days
Marcus Sedgwick
An intriguing, action-packed, highly readable story that has a
twist in it that you'll never guess. The characters are beautifully
drawn and the storyline very original. If you're not into fantasy
this is the author to get you into it...
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Dark Horse
Marcus Sedgwick
Compelling and gripping, beautifully crafted with a narrative that
will stick in your mind long after you've finished. It's a powerful
story of magic and betrayal in a distant past whilst at the same
time has a timeless ingredient to...
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Floodland
Marcus Sedgwick
This was hailed as one of the most extraordinary debuts when it was
first published in 2000. Set in the near future on the east coast
of England that has been reclaimed by the sea it tells the story
of...
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