Fair Game
Published on 16. March 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-340-77339-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Sinister terrors and a strange quest on a fogbound island where nothing is as it seems. This is another fast-paced, scary story featuring Peter and Katya, who are visiting Katya's father at his small pub/hotel on a remote Scottish island. But they bargain without their encounters with a priest in the ancient island cult of St Numnah, art thieves in pursuit of priceless treasures - and the story of the island's religious relic 'the Heart of St Numnah'.
Dangers abound with human baddies, gales and suffocating fog on an island already clouded with the terrors of its prehistoric cairns and standing stones ... Peter and Katya must again pit courage and wits against bizarre villains in a frantic race against time.
Dangers abound with human baddies, gales and suffocating fog on an island already clouded with the terrors of its prehistoric cairns and standing stones ... Peter and Katya must again pit courage and wits against bizarre villains in a frantic race against time.
Reviews / Votes
Of her previous books:'The tension is slyly added to, touch by chill touch, and any but the toughest readers is going to shudder ... The story is a constant pleasure to read, for the way words are chosen and used.' * TES * 'Marvellous stuff. If you give these sorts of books to your children, you'll find them come back asking for more. * BBC Woman's Hour * Another remarkable book where the exact nature of the thing which lifts it above the ordinary is not easy to define. Perhaps the only difference is in the quality of the writing itself, and the subtle build-up of tension to a pitch of sustained menace.' * Times Literary Supplement *
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 175 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
71 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-77339-0 (9780340773390)
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Person
Josephine Poole is a widely published and highly acclaimed writer whose work includes poetry, plays, TV dramas, wildlife stories, retellings of classic stories, thrillers and teenage novels. Romance, suspense and the supernatural are her favourite themes. Her novel CATCH AS CATCH CAN was made into a television series. SNOW WHITE, illustrated by Angela Barrett, was shortlisted for the Smarities Prize in 1991. Josephine lives with her husband in the country in a very old house large enough for their six children and five grandchildren - should they visit together - and a horse, a pony, a donkey, three dogs, two cats, several guinea pigs and a goldfish.