King Of Shadows by Susan Cooper - ISBN: 9781849412742
Paperback
A young actor travels to Shakespeare’s London. Will he return?

King Of Shadows

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 2010

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Summary

Award-winning author Susan Cooper brings the vivid, magical world of Shakespeare’s London to life in this rich and powerful novel.

“I lay very still, with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad. The plague? Nobody’s had the plague for centuries …”

Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As rehearsals begin, eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat, and he falls sick …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781849412742
ISBN-10:184941274X
Author:Susan Cooper
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint:Red Fox
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:1 December 2010
Weight:184g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

A masterful novel

A masterful novel * Publishers Weekly *

About The Author

Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper is a world-renowned author of children’s books. Born and brought up in England, she worked as a journalist before moving to America, where she now lives. Her fabulous The Dark Is Rising sequence has won the Newbery Medal and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her Boggart titles have won the Scottish Arts Council Children’s Book Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Smarties Prize. King of Shadows was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. As well as writing novels, Susan Cooper writes successful plays, and screenplays for film and television.

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