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Midnight Treasure: Wolf Crown: Get lost in a world of werwolves and vampirs, from an award-winning author
By (Author) Piers Torday
Hachette Children's Group
Quercus Children's Books
20th January 2026
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Hardback
384
Width 156mm, Height 240mm
A breathtaking fantasy world from the award-winning author of The Last Wild. In this spellbinding follow-up to Midnight Treasure, adventure with Tibor and Roza into an empire of vampirs and werwolves. For readers who loved Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures or S.F. Said's Tyger.
Praise for Midnight Treasure: 'Stop the hunt for your next epic read because this is a treasure of a fantasy book. High stakes, big heart, frightfully good' A.F. Steadman, author of the Skandar seriesIf you could destroy all the vampirs in the world just like that ... would youTibor and Roza are heirs to the throne, in a world of vampirs and werwolves. They've found a magical treasure with incredible powers ... and with it, they are the only people alive who can defeat the emperor of vampirs, the White Prince.If only they could agree on how.But to reclaim the vampir's throne, they must first find the long-lost Wolf Crown before he does. Can they outwit his spies, dragons and werwolves in time And decide who gets to wear ... the Wolf CrownFrom the award-winning Piers Torday comes this spectacular, irresistible treasure hunt: there will be clues, spells, imprisonments and escapes, fights, betrayals ... but above all there will be courage and hope.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, nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and is being adapted for the stage by the Unicorn and National Theatre. His second book, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Other titles include There May Be A Castle (People's Book Award finalist), which was adapted for the stage by the Little Angel Theatre, The Lost Magician (Teach Primary Book Award) and Midnight Treasure, the New Statesman Children's Book of the Year. He recently adapted The Box of Delights for the RSC. Other stage adaptations include Christmas Carol and The Wind in the Willows (Wilton's Music Hall).