The Poisoned King, 9781408897454
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Mythical creatures, a poisoned king, and a quest for justice.
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The Poisoned King

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    16 September 2025

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Summary

The Poisoned King: A Dazzling Return to the Archipelago

The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is justice to be done.

Return to the magic of the Archipelago… The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell’s epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.

‘There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell’ – Michael Morpurgo<…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781408897454
ISBN-10:1408897458
Series:Impossible Creatures
Author:Katherine Rundell
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:16 September 2025
Weight:280g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 26mm
About The Author

Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, and in 2024 Katherine was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.

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