The Raven Mysteries: Flood and Fang

by
Marcus Sedgwick
Illustrated by Pete Williamson

Strange things happen in Castle Otherhand, which isn’t surprising given its eccentric inhabitants. Lord Valevine spends his time performing experiments on frogs, his wife
Minty prizes her baking tins almost as highly as her children, and ten-year-old Cudweed tears around the castle with his annoying pet monkey, Fellah.

Teenage beauty Solstice is the castle’s kindly voice of reason. Along with the family’s all-seeing pet raven Edgar (who rather despairingly narrates the story), she helps avert

disaster when kitchen maids begin to disappear and the castle mysteriously begins to fill with water…

The first in a mystery series for younger readers, this tale is enhanced by quirky illustrations of the gothic Otherhand family; Edgar’s grumpy narration is sure to delight as well.

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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