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The Eyeball Collector

by F E Higgins

'When you run with wolves you become a wolf,' are the dying words of the ruined wine merchant Augustus Fitzbaudly. But his son Hector is set on revenge against the parasitical one-eyed blackmailer Gulliver Truepin, whose greed and ambition are limitless.

 

Menacing Lady Mandible employs Hector to produce a butterfly display for her midwinter feast. Fear, violence and death stalk the corridors of Withypitts Hall where Hector tends his cocoons and plots a poisonous end for the blackmailer.

 

Suspense, murder and cruelty take centre stage in this rollercoaster of a read.

Kindness, loyalty and truth play minor roles until the climax when Hector learns that although you cannot alter your past, you have constant opportunities to change your future.

 

Publisher: Macmillan Children's books

  • F E Higgins

    F E Higgins was born in England but raised in Ireland. She now lives and writes in a house that dates back to the fifteenth century, in a small village in rural Kent. The Black Book of Secrets, her debut novel, was published in hardback in January 2007 with the paperback following in September 2007. It met a huge amount of critical acclaim including being the first Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week in 2007. Eion Colfer also heralded it as 'Wonderful. Anyone looking for the next big thing has come to the right place. Higgins has created a uniquely grim fantasy world that more than holds its own with Dickens or Peake. Her characters are brilliantly realised and the story grabs at the reader with hooked talons'.

     

    The Bone Magician, her second novel for Macmillan Children's Books, was published in March 2008.

    F E Higgins Photo: Macmillan
    F E Higgins Photo: Macmillan

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