The Prisoners of September
Published on 28. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-78295-077-6 (ISBN)
Description
Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September massacre.
Reviews / Votes
A richly exuberant blend of elaborately plotted narrative, weaving between the comic, the tender and the macabre * The Prisoners of September *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 11 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
457 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78295-077-6 (9781782950776)
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Additional editions
Leon Garfield
The Prisoners of September
E-Book
05/2015
1st Edition
RHCP UK Digital
€9.99
Available for download
Person
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.