Curse of Salamander Street (eBook)

G.P. Taylor (Autor)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-27118-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Magenta has returned to the shores of England, carrying young Kate, her friend Thomas and the ship's charismatic owner, Jacob Crane, up the Thames. They have recently escaped the sorcerer Demurral, and Kate searches the waves for a sign of their friend Raphah, lost to the sea. But further trouble awaits them in London, where their beloved ship is seized . . . Meanwhile, figures stir on the shores further North. Beadle, Demurral's one time servant has survived, while other shadows from Jacob and Kate's past are also awakening. Has Demurral really been vanquished forever? Who is the lady who haunts the roads South? What is the hidden secret of Salmander Street? A tale of mystery and adventure running between the wilds of the North and South, from the bestselling author of Shadowmancer,Wormwood and Tersias.

G. P. Taylor is the author of several best-selling novels, including Shadowmancer, Shadowmancer: The Curse of Salamander Street, Wormwood and Tersias, as well as the Mariah Mundi trilogy. A former vicar of Cloughton in Yorkshire, he has enjoyed a varied career, moving from rock music to social work to ten years in the police force before his ordination. He now lives with his family in Scarborough.

Rezensionen

[Taylor's] mixture of a great plot with a fantasy theme and a kind of Victorian writing style has been compared to Tolkein and CS Lewis, a fact which he quarrels with since he has only been writing for three years ... But what he may lack in literary years, he makes up for in 'life experience'.

Taylor's imagination is as ripe as a rotting corpse ... Taylor excels at metaphysical terror; not surprising for a Chuch of England vicar who has conducted 50 exorcisms ... The scene where Jonah's friend and accomplica Tara finds she has company in her pitch-black cell is one of the most scary and revolting that I've ever come across in a "children's" book ... Taylor conjures up marvellous settings for his characters ... He is superb at creating atmosphere, so he can be forgiven his occasional adjectival and adverbial excesses and the odd gothic cliche.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2010
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Schlagworte: good vs evil • Magic • Witchcraft • wizards
• ISBN-10: 0-571-27118-9 / 0571271189
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27118-4 / 9780571271184