The Black Book of Secrets

by F . E . Higgins (Author)

• Used

  Unabridged
  2007

  $3.28

  Wonderful. Anyone looking for the next big thing has come to the right place. Higgins has created a uniquely grim fantasy world that more than holds its own with Dickens or Peake. Her characters are brilliantly realised and the story grabs at the reader with hooked talons - Eoin Colfer. When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets, not goods, for cash. Employed as Joe's assistant, Ludlow records the villagers' fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound volume: The Black Book of Secrets . There's the gravedigger who has been resurrecting bodies; the butcher who made a mouse-meat pie for his bullying father, with fatal consequences; the wizened bookseller who went to murderous lengths to get her hands on a priceless tome. Ludlow longs to trust his mysterious master, but he senses Joe has much to hide. But then Ludlow Fitch has his own, very dark, secrets ...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.28

  Perfect for teaching:

  • multiple narrative perspectives
  • stories within a story
  • theme of moral dilemmas.

  Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Shortlist.

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $20.09

  Perfect for teaching:

  • multiple narrative perspectives
  • stories within a story
  • theme of moral dilemmas.

  Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Shortlist.