The Black Sphinx
By (Author) Matt Hart
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Corgi Childrens
30th June 2014
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
2132g
A fast-paced and anarchic young fantasy adventure filled with dastardly villains and a brave young hero. THE BLACK SPHINX is missing. Who wants it the mostThe indomitable CALLISTO Queen of the Underworld SQUALIDA MACHEATHOr madder than a mackerel JASPER PEPPEROr will it be CRISPIN RATTLE, our orphaned young heroBut if jackal-headed gods can't stop JASPER PEPPER, what on earth can CRISPIN doRead this rip-roaring adventure in paperback now . . . and test your code-breaking skills against the hieroglyphic messages of the sphinx!
MATT HART is Welsh and proud of it. He has worked as a fairground operative, in an architect's office, as a bus conductor and as a building-site labourer before turning to writing full-time. He reads loads, his favourite animal is the coatimundi and THE BLACK SPHINX is his first fantasy novel.