Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Impossible Creatures

British Book Awards Children's Fiction Book of the Year, Waterstones Book of the Year winner, Books Are My Bag Readers' Award winner, Foyles Children's Book of the Year, shortlisted for Amazon Kids and YA Book of the Year, a Times, Independent, and Daily Telegraph Children's Book of the Week, an instant Sunday Times bestseller! There's a place where all the wildest stories began ... From Katherine Rundell, the British Book Awards Author of the Year, comes the paperback release of the first novel in the critically acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling Impossible Creatures series. This edition includes The Centaur's Spectacles bonus short story. - Christopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in the thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil - before it's too late. Together the two must face the problem of power, of knowledge, and of what love demands of us. 'The world of this new book is so intriguing and so well put together that I couldn't resist it.' - Philip Pullman. 'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell.' Michael Morpurgo. 'Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as enchanting, as perilous, as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth.' Frank Cottrell-Boyce. 'The heir to C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien? The action is gripping and every sentence sparkles in this excellent first volume of a new fantasy trilogy ..." The Times.