The Raven Mysteries: Lunatics and Luck
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Marcus Sedgwick
Illustrated by Pete Williamson
The Otherhand children are bored. But it turns out that being bored to death is the least of their worries when it comes to Mr Brandish, their horribly hairy and viciously mean new school teacher. So, when the body count mysteriously starts climbing, Mr Brandish’s suspicious-looking heavy wooden trunk starts to look, well, very suspicious indeed.
Throw into the mix Fellah, a monkey in a wedding dress, and things just get odder by the minute. Looks like it is down to Edgar the guardian raven to swoop in and save them all.
Utterly bonkers and completely chaotic, the third book in the Raven Mysteries series might send you a little bit mad...
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
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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.
http://www.marcussedgwick.com/Marcus_Sedgwick/Home.html
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Pete Williamson
Pete Williamson is a London-based artist, illustrator and animation designer. His highly-acclaimed work includes the award-winning Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things and the gothic pottiness of Marcus Sedgwick's The Raven Mysteries.
http://www.petewilliamson.co.uk/
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