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The Box of Delights

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Box of Delights

Contributors:

By (Author) Piers Torday
Original author John Masefield

ISBN:

9780571346103

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

2nd January 2018

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

822.92

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

144

Dimensions:

Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm

Weight:

155g

Description

Kay Harker is heading home for the school holidays. Recently orphaned, he knows this Christmas will be different but nothing could prepare him for the journey that lies ahead.

On the train he meets an old magician, Cole Hawlings, who charges Kay with safeguarding a wondrous device that has time-travelling powers. It's an instrument that Cole's nemesis, the wicked sorcerer Abner Brown, will stop at nothing to steal for himself. And so when the old man mysteriously disappears, Kay faces the fight of his life. He must protect both the Box of Delights and, with it, the people he loves.

The Box of Delights is a magical and festive adventure in which one boy must confront the secrets of the past to defeat the evil in his present. The future of Christmas itself depends upon him.

Adapted for the stage for the first time by Piers Today, John Masefield's much-loved classic The Box of Delightspremiered at Wilton's Music Hall in December 2017.

'One of the greatest children's books ever written.' The Times

Author Bio

Piers Torday began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer. His first book for children, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. The sequel, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Other books include The Wild Beyond and The Death of an Owl. He lives in London with his husband and a very naughty dog.

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