Riverkeep
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is preparing to unwillingly take up his family's mantle as Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. When his father is posessed by a dark spirit, everything changes. He discovers that the cure...
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Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is preparing to unwillingly take up his family's mantle as Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. When his father is posessed by a dark spirit, everything changes. He discovers that the cure for his father's illness may lurk in the belly of the mormorach, a great sea-dwelling beast. He embarks on an epic journey down the river...
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Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. But then everything changes. One night his father is possessed by a dark spirit, and Wull hears that a cure lurks deep within the great sea-beast known as the mormorach. He realizes he must go on an epic journey downriver to find it - or lose Pappa forever.
Autoren-Porträt von Martin Stewart
Martin Stewart has previously worked as a recycling technician, university lecturer, barman, golf caddy, and English teacher. Having written his first book on Post-Its as an eight year-old, it was his time back in the classroom that made him understand the unique joy of writing for younger readers. A native of Glasgow, where he still lives, he enjoys buying books to feed his to-be-read pile, and combining the city's urban splendour with walks on the beaches of Scotland's west coast. Martin's first novel, Riverkeep, was longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Follow him on Twitter: @martinjstewart.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Martin Stewart
- Altersempfehlung: 12 - 14 Jahre
- 2016, 368 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141362030
- ISBN-13: 9780141362038
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A cracking, startlingly original story . . . It would be an extraordinary book by any author - but it is Martin Stewart's first Spectator
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