Malamander - The first in a hugely original and highly popular middle grade seaside mystery series for children aged 9, 10, 11, 12 from an award-winning author

Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep...

Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy - especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened to Violet Parma's parents twelve years ago, and when she engages Herbie to help her find them, the pair discover that their disappearance might have something to do with the legendary sea-monster, the Malamander. Eerie-on-Sea has always been a mysteriously chilling place, where strange stories seem to wash up. And it just got stranger...

About the author

Thomas Taylor is an award-winning author-illustrator for children. He illustrated the cover for the very first Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and has since gone on to write and illustrate both picture books and novels. He is best known for his internationally acclaimed Eerie-on-Sea Mystery series, for middle-grade readers, Malamander, Gargantis, Shadowghast, Festergrimm and Mermedusa, which has been translated into over 20 different languages. Thomas lives on the south coast of England and can be found on Facebook and Twitter: @ThomasHTaylor

Report

...a wonderfully imaginative and atmospheric adventure, rich in myth and legend and with a delicious gothic edge... Taylor is best known as an illustrator - he famously created the original jacket for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - but Malamander confirms him as a ferociously talented writer... this really is one that deserves all the buzz. Fiona Noble The Bookseller, Children's Book of the Month

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Taylor
• Publisher: Walker Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2019
• EAN: 9781406386288
• ISBN: 978-1-4063-8628-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 21 mm x 198 mm
• Weight: 294 g
• Series: An Eerie-on-Sea Mystery; Die Geheimnisse von Eerie-on-Sea / The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea / An Eerie-on-Sea Mystery
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, FICTION / Sea Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Monsters, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Alternative Family, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & Mystery Fiction (Children's/Ya)