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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New ed of "Dragon's Egg and Other Stories"
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 23 Apr 1997

ISBN 10: 0340655763
ISBN 13: 9780340655764
Book Overview: Author won the Whitbread Award for The Song of Pentecost

Author Bio
W.J. Corbett joined the Merchant Navy as a galley-boy when he was sixteen and saw the world. He also worked as a factory hand, furniture remover, building site labourer and dishwasher. His first book, 'The Song of Pentecost', described by Roald Dahl as 'an astonishing achievement', won the prestigious Whitbread Award. He has since been described as a 'born writer' by Auberon Waugh.