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A Riddle for a King Synopsis
An exciting adventure, filled with magic, fun, friendships, and weird and wonderful creatures! The story introduces readers to some brain-bendy puzzles and might just convince you that up is down and down is up . . .
Philo longs for freedom and adventure, and he most certainly gets it when he lands in the strangest of lands: a place where nothing makes sense, a place packed with riddles and paradoxes.
Will Philo ever make it home? Will he make sense of the conundrums that litter his path?
An addictive, delightfully bamboozling story sure to thrill and intrigue puzzle-loving readers.
About This Edition
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9781788453165 |
| Publication date: |
12th September 2024 |
| Author: |
Mark Forsyth |
| Illustrator: |
Matthew Land |
| Publisher: |
David Fickling Books |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
256 pages |
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Press Reviews
Mark Forsyth Press Reviews
'A total delight . . . the riddling 21st century heir to The Phantom Tollbooth and Alice in Wonderland - witty, nonsensical, paradoxical and completely charming. Just don't get turned into a teapot . . .' - Piers Torday
Praise for Mark Forsyth
'Highly entertaining' - Guardian
'Sparkling' - Daily Telegraph
'Addictive' - The Times
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About Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present, and has never looked back. He is the author of several books on language, including The Illustrated Etymologicon, which was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller. Mark has also written about Christmas traditions and bookshops, and his TED Talk on language and politics ('What's a snollygoster?') has had over half a million views.
He studied English at Oxford University, and lives in London.
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Author Mark Forsyth says, "I’ve always loved strict logical philosophy. Because it’s hilarious. For three thousand years, very serious philosophers with very serious beards have been inventing hypothetical situations in which logic itself would break down. Take the sentence: ‘This statement is untrue.’ That’s a logical paradox: if it’s true then it’s not true, and if it’s not true then it’s true.
There are lots of these paradoxes. But most of them are hidden away in dry and dusty academic tomes that nobody reads until they get to post-graduate level. They’re all utterly preposterous. None of them could happen in the real world. And that’s why I invented an imaginary world in which they are all happening at once. All the time. Everywhere. That’s the world of this book – I hope you enjoy it!’
