Mortlock
1st Edition
Published on 7. June 2010
400 pages
978-1-4088-1072-9 (ISBN)
Description
The sister is a knife thrower in a magician's stage act, the brother is an undertaker's assistant. Neither orphan knows of the other's existence. Until, that is, three terrible Aunts descend on the girl's house and imprison her guardian, the Great Cardamom. His dying act is to pass the girl a note with clues to the secret he has carried to his grave. Cardamom was one of three explorers on an expedition to locate the legendary Amarant, a plant with power over life and death. Now, pursued by flesh-eating crow-like ghuls, brother and sister must decode the message and save themselves from its sinister legacy.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Reading Age: From 9 years, Interest Age: From 9 to 11 years
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-1072-9 (9781408810729)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
Jon Mayhew is a man with a dark imagination, who has always loved writing and storytelling. An English teacher (to children and teenagers) for 20 years, he now works as a specialist teacher for children with autism. He has four children himself and, when neither teaching nor writing, he plays in ceilidh bands and runs marathons. Mortlock is his first novel and has been shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Jon lives between the ancient cities of Chester and Liverpool.
Content
- Cover
- Imprint
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Part the First
- Epigraph one
- Chapter one
- Epigraph two
- Chapter two
- Epigraph three
- Chapter three
- Epigraph four
- Chapter four
- Epigraph five
- Chapter five
- Epigraph six
- Chapter six
- Epigraph seven
- Chapter seven
- Epigraph eight
- Chapter eight
- Epigraph nine
- Chapter nine
- Epigraph ten
- Chapter ten
- Epigraph eleven
- Chapter eleven
- Epigraph twelve
- Chapter twelve
- Epigraph thirteen
- Chapter thirteen
- Epigraph fourteen
- Chapter fourteen
- Part the Second
- Epigraph fifteen
- Chapter fifteen
- Epigraph sixteen
- Chapter sixteen
- Epigraph seventeen
- Chapter seventeen
- Epigraph eighteen
- Chapter eighteen
- Epigraph nineteen
- Chapter nineteen
- Epigraph twenty
- Chapter twenty
- Epigraph twenty-one
- Chapter twenty-one
- Epigraph twenty-two
- Chapter twenty-two
- Epigraph twenty-three
- Chapter twenty-three
- Epigraph twenty-four
- Chapter twenty-four
- Epigraph twenty-five
- Chapter twenty-five
- Epigraph twenty-six
- Chapter twenty-six
- Epigraph twenty-seven
- Chapter twenty-seven
- Epigraph twenty-eight
- Chapter twenty-eight
- Epigraph twenty-nine
- Chapter twenty-nine
- Epigraph thirty
- Chapter thirty
- Epigraph thirty-one
- Chapter thirty-one
- Epilogue
- Final epigraph
