The Prisoners of September
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Prisoners of September
By (Author) Leon Garfield
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox Classics
15th December 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
267g
Description
A compelling mix of tragedy and comedy set in the French Revolution, from acclaimed writer Leon Garfield. Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September massacre.
Reviews
A richly exuberant blend of elaborately plotted narrative, weaving between the comic, the tender and the macabre * The Prisoners of September *
Author Bio
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.
