The Poisoned King - Impossible Creatures 2

"Come, and bring the dragon: there is justice to be done." Discover the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell''s epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Rundell, Rundell Katherine
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9781408897454
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-9745-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Impossible Creatures; Die Archipel-Serie / Impossible Creatures
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years