Tick,tick,tick,tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . .It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be,and the unveiling is tomorrow.Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl,he hasn't finished. Well,he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so,with the snow swirling down outside,he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it.Suddenly,Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . . .
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780241326312Number of pages: 128Weight: 96 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 7 mm
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A thrilling masterwork on stories that become realIt has the feel of a classic fairy tale. It's the most elegantly constructed,chilling storyExciting,scary,romantic and deliciously readable
Philip Pullman
The Lord of Dust,creator of daemons and spinner of the finest fairy tales,Philip Pullman is one of the world's greatest and most influential storytellers. He is best-known for the unparalleled achievement that isHis Dark Materialsand the long awaited The Book of Dust. The winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2017,the first volume in the series,La Belle Sauvage,is this year continued inThe Secret Commonwealth,published in October 2019.
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