Wolfbane

Name: William Joseph
Price range: $

by Michelle Paver

Interest age: 10 to 15
Reading age: 9+

Published by Zephyr, 2022

Adventure
Fantasy
Historical
Thriller

About this book

It is commonly understood that Wolf’s souls are the brightest and strongest of all creatures and the ice demon Naiginn knows this.

He hungers for the power those souls would give him if he can contrive to trap Wolf and eat his souls while he is still living. Wolfbane, a powerful poison that paralyses without killing, will surely get him what he craves.

When Wolf is swept out to sea on an ice floe, it’s a race against time for his pack brother, Torak, and pack sister, Renn, to reach him and defeat the demon before the worst happens.

Set 6,000 years ago in the wild forests of northern Scandinavia, this breathtaking adventure brings the Wolf Brother series to a magnificent and fitting end. As well as the exhilarating action, there are touching and heart-wrenching moments as the stories of some of the key players are brought to their conclusions.

The outstanding world-building, inspired language and masterful storytelling plunge readers headfirst into the customs and visceral experience of a life lost to history.

Although Wolfbane could be read as a stand-alone story, readers will get much more from it if they have read the previous books in the series.

About the author

Born in Malawi in 1960 to a Belgian mother and a father who ran the tiny 'Nyasaland Times', Michelle Paver moved to the UK when she was three. She was brought up in Wimbledon and, following a Biochemistry Degree from Oxford, she became a partner in a big City law firm.

She gave up the City to follow her long-held dream of becoming a writer. She is the author of the brilliantly successful children's series, The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.