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The Dark Horse

by Marcus Sedgwick

This is a gripping tale of betrayal, magic and tribal conflict, reminiscent of the Norse sagas. Mouse is a girl with a mysterious past and an uncanny ability to communicate with animals. Rescued from a pack of wolves some years before, she now she lives happily with Sigurd, her adopted brother, in the village of Storn.

 

Their peaceful lives are shattered when a sinister stranger arrives in the village and Mouse discovers a strange wooden box – harbingers of danger from both outside and inside the tribe. This is a thrilling and challenging read with a strong sense of time and place.

 

Publisher: Orion Children's Books

  • Marcus Sedgwick

    Marcus Sedgwick began to write seriously in 1994, and his first book, Floodland, was published by Orion in 2000, and won the Branford-Boase award for best debut children's novel. Witch Hill followed in 2001, and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Independent Reading Association award and the Portsmouth Book Award. In 2002 The Dark Horse was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, The Carnegie Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award.


    The Book of Dead Days was nominated for the Guardian Award, and was shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
    In his spare time, Marcus is a drummer and at the moment play’s the part of Basil Exposition from behind the kit in The International Band of Mystery, an Austin Powers tribute band.


    Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. Marcus lives in Cambridge and has a young daughter, Alice.

     

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    Marcus Sedgwick
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