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Cornelia in the UK!

All you Inkheart fans will be pleased to hear Cornelia Funke is making a special appearance at the Bath Festival of Children's Literature on 27th September to read extracts from the Inkheart Trilogy. Those attending might just get a sneak preview snippet of Inkdeath too!

Deeper Tour

Tunnels authors Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams begin their UK tour this month for Deeper, the darker and deadlier sequel to Tunnels.

Catch them at:

Edinburgh International Book Festival - Friday 22nd August

Bath Festival of Children's Literature - Sunday 28th September

See you there!

Barry

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Dear Friends
The last of our summer days will soon be gone – but DON’T WORRY we have some brilliant books this Autumn - perfect for cosying up to, getting lost in and even some that will keep you awake all night!

INKDEATH is Cornelia Funke’s final book in her astounding INKHEART TRILOGY and it’s awesome, complex, deeply emotional and very very exciting. Read it before you see the INKHEART movie on your screens in December! It stars Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren and Paul Bettany and a host of UK familiar faces!

Another ‘cinematic’ novel is MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY by Trenton Lee Stewart – it’s a fabulous quirky and gripping adventure based around some irrepressibly individual children with bizarre and fascinating talents.

I know Emily Diamand was a child worried about what would happen to our fragile environment – so when she wrote REAVERS RANSOM, the outright winner of our first Times/Chicken House new writers’ competition, she imagined a Great Britain partially flooded by rising water, and with all our power sources gone! Cue pirates, adventures and some very new types of resourceful survival. Of course penguins would still be at home under these conditions – but what would happen if you woke up and you were a pink penguin. That’s the story in our funny, thoughtful and charming picture book PINK by Lynne Richards and Margaret Chamberlain.

Happy reading!!!

Barry Cunningham