Chris Riddell

“The corpses swayed where they stood, their bony arms outstretched before them and tattered sleeves hanging limply in the foggy air. I smelled the sourness of the sewers about them; that, and the sweet whiff of death. Their sunken eyes bored into mine. I was surrounded. . . .” Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, delivering messages and running errands all over the city, day and night. Gangland funerals and diving expeditions are hazardous enough,...

An unlucky twelve-year-old Norwegian boy named Odd leads the Norse gods Loki, Thor, and Odin in an attempt to outwit evil Frost Giants who have taken over Asgard.

"Cade Quarter is on the run - wanted for the crimes of an uncle he has never even met. With nowhere else to go, he sneaks onto the Xanth Filatine, a forbidding skyship bound for the city of Hive. But he is soon forced to abandon ship for the harsh lands of the mighty Deepwoods. Cade must build a new life amongst flesh-eating bloodoak trees, fearsome goblin tribes and monstrous lake creatures. And most mysterious of all, a strange, half-formed giant...

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