Creature of the Night
$26.78
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2009
Summary
From this multi-award winning author comes a gritty, hard-hitting tale of disaffected youth, but not without a hint of Kate’s signature fantasy.
“I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. ‘She was little,’ he said. ‘Little like me. But old. Older than you.’ Those words gave me a cold shock. I could see Dennis imagining fairies, but old ones?”
When Bobby’s mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781862303508 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1862303509 |
| Author: | Kate Thompson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Definitions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
A tale that interweaves contemporary teenage experience - strong language, bad habits and all - with Irish folklore and a murder mystery
A tale that interweaves contemporary teenage experience - strong language, bad habits and all - with Irish folklore and a murder mystery – Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *
About The Author
Kate Thompson
Kate Thompson is one of the most exciting authors writing for young people today. A born storyteller, her work is highly original and she is thought provoking in her ideas. She has travelled widely in the USA and India and studied law in London. After living in County Clare, she moved to Kinvara in County Galway and there, she discovered her passion for playing the fiddle. She is now an accomplished player and also has a great interest in restoring instruments.
Kate is the only author to win the Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Book of the Year award four times - in 2002 for The Beguilers, in 2003 for The Alchemist’s Apprentice, in 2004 for Annan Water and in 2006 for The New Policeman.
The New Policeman also won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2005, the Whitbread Book Award Children’s category 2005, the Children’s Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards in March 2006 and has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
In 2008 Kate was again shortlisted for the Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Award for her book, The Last of the High Kings, a beautiful and haunting story that delves deep into the magic of Irish myth and folklore.
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