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Cogheart

By: Peter Bunzl

Series : The Cogheart Adventures

Age 9+

£7.99

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The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination.

Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat.

Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her?

With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARD
SELECTED AS ONE OF THE NATION'S 100 FAVOURITE STORIES TO SHARE (World Book Day, 2018)

"A steampunky tale of ambition, pursuit and revenge." The Guardian

"A delightfully badly behaved heroine, enthralling mechanicals and a stormer of a plot." Abi Elphinstone

"A glittering clockwork treasure." Piers Torday

Details

Extent:: 368 pages
Dimensions:: 197.2 x 134.7mm
Paperback ISBN:: 9781474915007
Accelerated Reader Book Level:: 5.7
Accelerated Reader Interest Level:: Middle years (MY)
Book Band:: Dark Blue
Key Stage:: KS2, KS3
Publication Date:: September 2016
Work Reference:: 03981

Author

Peter Bunzl grew up in South London in a rambling Victorian house with three cats, two dogs, one sister, an antique-dealer dad and an artist mum. He is a BAFTA-winning animator, as well as a writer and film-maker. Peter's debut novel, Cogheart, has been shortlisted for lots of awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Like Lily and Robert, he loves adventures and reading penny dreadfuls, but wishes dearly that he had a mechanical fox called Malkin.

Find out more about Peter Bunzl

Series

Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in these gripping and award-winning Victorian adventures.

View series: The Cogheart Adventures

Awards

Winner

Dudley Teen Book Award 2017

Winner

Sefton Super Reads Award 2017

Winner

Awesome Book Awards 2018

Shortlisted

Leeds Book Award 2017

Shortlisted

Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017

Shortlisted

North East Teen Book Award 2016

Shortlisted

Hillingdon Primary Book of the Year 2017

Shortlisted

Haringey Children's Book Award 2017

Shortlisted

Redbridge Children's Book Award 2017

Shortlisted

Stockport Children's Book Award 2017

Shortlisted

Crystal Kite Award 2017

Shortlisted

Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Awards 2017

Shortlisted

Chorlton Book Awards 2017

Shortlisted

Harrow Junior Book Award 2018

Shortlisted

Salford Children's Book Award 2018

Shortlisted

Stockton Children's Book of the Year 2018

Longlisted

The Branford Boase Award 2017

Longlisted

Cranleigh School's Awesome Book Awards 2018

Longlisted

St Helens Schools Library Service Book Awards 2018

Nominated

The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018

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Press

Bunzl's impressive debut novel... draws readers into an atmospheric steam-punk plot which has all the ingredients of a real page-turner. Sinister characters and high tension ensure that children will devour this.

The Bookseller

A classic adventure in every way I love – machines, Victoriana and high, pulse-pounding thrills. It’s got real heart too.

Rob Lloyd Jones, author of Wild Boy

A delightfully badly behaved heroine, enthralling mechanicals and a stormer of a plot.

Abi Elphinstone, author of The Dreamsnatcher

A gem of a book.

Katherine Woodfine, author of The Clockwork Sparrow

A glittering clockwork treasure.

Piers Torday