Creature of the Night

Kate Thompson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:2nd Apr '09

Should be back in stock very soon

Creature of the Night cover

From this multi-award winning author comes a gritty, hard-hitting tale of disaffected youth, but not without a hint of Kate's signature fantasy.

But getting his old life back doesn't turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there.

I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. 'She was little,' he said. 'Little like me. But old. Older than you.' Those words gave me a cold shock. I could see Dennis imagining fairies, but old ones?

When Bobby's mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesn't care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn't turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there. Was there really a murder? And if so, was it the one he has been told about?

A tale that interweaves contemporary teenage experience - strong language, bad habits and all - with Irish folklore and a murder mystery -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *

  • Winner of Bisto Honour Award / Gradam Feabhais Bisto 2009
  • Winner of Bisto Merit Award 2009
  • Short-listed for Carnegie Medal 2009
  • Short-listed for Bisto Book of the Year Award 2009
  • Short-listed for Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008

ISBN: 9781862303508

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 192g

272 pages