The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is justice to be done. Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series. 'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' - Michael Morpurgo When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago - the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon's lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice... The unmissable sequel to Impossible Creatures, WINNER of the Waterstones Book of the Year, British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, Foyles Children's Book of the Year and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award 'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight' - Cressida Cowell on Impossible Creatures 'Readers will seize this with delight' - Philip Pullman on Impossible Creatures 'A masterpiece to rival Tolkien' - Daily Telegraph on Impossible Creatures 'Every sentence sparkles ... Magnificent' - The Times on Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell, born on 10 July 1987, is an English author and academic known for her celebrated children's books and literary contributions. Her book Impossible Creatures was named Book of the Year in 2023. Another notable work, Rooftoppers, won both the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award in 2015 and was a Carnegie Medal finalist. Rundell, a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programs like Start the Week and Poetry Please.
Her other books include The Girl Savage (released as Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms in the U.S.), which won the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction, The Wolf Wilder, and The Explorer, winner of the 2017 Costa Book Award for children’s books. In 2022, her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her the award’s youngest recipient.
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Super-Infinite
The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
