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Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black

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By (author): Julian Sedgwick Marcus Sedgwick

Illustrated by: Alexis Deacon

A lyrical and dreamlike story of two brothers in conflict amidst the devastation of WWII London.

Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during a German air raid on London. In a state of wounded delirium, Harrys mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of the war-torn city, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry discharges himself from hospital and begins a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the citys Underworld...

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Product Details
  • Weight: 835g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 217mm
  • Publication Date: 02 May 2019
  • Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
  • ISBN13: 9781406357929

About Julian SedgwickMarcus Sedgwick

Marcus Sedgwick is the author of many celebrated novels for young adults including the Michael L Printz award winning Midwinterblood. He has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal the Edgar Allan Poe Award the Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize and has thrice been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.Julian Sedgwick is the author of six books for children including the critically-acclaimed Dark Satanic Mills which he co-authored with his brother Marcus. The Black Dragon the first book in Julians Mysterium trilogy was the winner of the 2013 Rotherham Childrens Book Award.Alexis Deacon is a writer and illustrator of childrens books. His first book Slow Loris published in 2002 was in 2015 named by Time Magazine as one of the hundred best childrens books of all time. In 2008 he was chosen as one of Booktrusts ten best new illustrators of the preceding decade.

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