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A powerful new story and debut comic book from award-winning and multi-selling author Marcus Sedgwick collaborating with brother Julian Sedgwick and internationally renowned comics artist John Higgins.Set in a near-future Britain, Dark Satanic Mills tracks a young girl's journey from the flooded landmarks of London to the vast, scorched and abandoned hills of the north. Framed for a murder she did not commit, the innocent and beautiful Christie has no other choice but to run for her life. Both a cautionary tale and a rip-roaring road trip, Dark Satanic Mills is altogether an intelligent, captivating and thrilling ride – The Wizard of Oz for a new generation, told in exhilarating shades of light and dark.

A lyrical and dreamlike story of two brothers in conflict amidst the devastation of WWII London.Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during a German air raid on London. In a state of wounded delirium, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of the war-torn city, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry discharges himself from hospital and begins a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld...

East meets West; past meets present; criminal minds meet skilled artists - welcome to the Mysterium, a circus with dark and thrilling secrets at its heart.Twelve-year-old Danny Woo is half-Chinese, half-British. His parents are performers in the Mysterium. Following their death in a mysterious fire, Danny is sent to live with his aunt Laura, an investigative journalist.When Danny's school is closed after an explosion, he joins Laura on a trip to Hong Kong. She is researching the Triad gangs; he is trying to understand more about his cultural background.But Laura disappears, and Danny is plunged into a dangerous quest to find her - which opens the door on the past he could never have imagined, and which leads him to question everything he has ever known about his past.

Reeling from events in Barcelona, the reformed Mysterium circus company pack up and head for a new circus in Berlin. For twelve-year-old Danny Woo it is a date with destiny: it was in Berlin ('the city of escapes') that the last Mysterium performance took place, and where his parents perished in the mysterious fire for which Danny has been desperate to find an explanation.Danny is closing in on Centre - the traitor who is either part of the Mysterium, or linked to it. But a vital last clue, left in code by Danny's father, is missing. And a dark figure is shadowing the convoy as it makes its way across Europe.As the Mysterium pitches camp in Berlin, the snow begins to fall once more. The truth is within reach - but will Danny discover it in time enough to save not only himself but Sing-Sing - the sister he never knew he had.

Danny Woo has escaped from the jaws of death once - but his trials are not yet over. He''s meant to be recovering, but when he discovers the Mysterium - the circus into which he was born, and which cost his parents their lives - is being reformed in Barcelona, he determines to join them. But all is not well - who is the bad seed inside the once-loyal company? And who is the woman in green who can kill, and who seems to be trailing Danny with each move he makes? Everything, he knows, is linked to the death of his parents: he must continue his quest to find his parents'' killers. Once again, the story culminates in Danny''s participation in a well-known and dangerous stunt.

A powerful teen thriller with echoes of J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life ...Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide out in ruined White Cloud Temple. But the world of Shanghai in the late 1920s is driven with danger: disease, crime, espionage and revolution are sweeping the streets. And since the death of her younger brother Thomas, Ruby is stalked by another anxiety and fear. Faced with a series of local hauntings, and armed with a lucky bookshop find - The Almanac of Distant Realms - Ruby forms the Shanghai Ghost Club to hunt down restless spirits. When best friend Faye is kidnapped by the Green Hand, Ruby must trust a mysterious stranger - and face her worst fears - in order to save her friends, and her own life. And in the ensuing fight she will catch a glimpse of the one spirit she has longed to see ...The secrets that Ruby's father and friends have kept from her are coming back to haunt them all.

J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun meets Susan Hill's The Woman in Black in a compelling teen thriller ...Ruby - a Western girl who feels more Chinese than English - and her friend Charlie must follow the Yangtze hundreds of miles upriver, travelling by Chinese junk and rogue steamer, through bandit and ghost haunted countryside - doggedly tracking Moonface as he spirits Charlie's sister Fei off to his home village. Everything is in flux around them: civil war pulsing, with Nationalists, Communists and warlord bandits struggling for control. The river rises and falls, villages spring up and are gone again. Ruby and Charlie brave a shipwreck and a gunbattle and then take a perilous cliff path to Moonface's lair.

'The thing about ghosts is sometimes we create our own. And sometimes they find us, no matter what we do.' The thrilling conclusion to the Ghosts of Shanghai by the award-winning author of the Mysterium trilogy, for fans of Philip Pullman, Susan Hill and Robin Stevens.Ruby is on a mission to rescue the boy she loves: Charlie has been swept away in the powerful waters of the River Yangtze. But the world she loves is now broken by danger and fear, and Ruby is lost and surrounded by ghosts. Can Ruby trust herself, and those around her, to find Charlie and return to Shanghai? Or has she ventured too deep into the realm of spirits?On an amazing journey down the Yangtze, crossing from one world to the other, Ruby must follow the 'red thread of destiny' to find Charlie and home, before she loses herself . . .

SHORTLISTED for the CARNEGIE GREENAWAY AWARD 2022Fifteen-year-old Yuki is struggling at school with her confidence, and goes to Japan to stay with her grandfather, a well-known manga artist and to whom she is very close. But during her visit, a calamitous event occurs - the East Coast Earthquake and Tsunami - and her beloved Grandpa is lost. Yuki and her friend Taka must make sense of the terrible situation and come to terms with the loss of their life as they knew it - and see that through renewal and with resilience, they can emerge from this tragedy with optimism for the future. Interwoven with Japanese folk tales, modern-day ghost stories, and the creation of her very own vibrant manga hero, Yuki finds the courage to overcome extraordinary odds, and take her first steps into the world that lies beyond catastrophe. Told through both prose and manga, this story for young adults will touch the heart of any reader.'Impressive and Original' – Financial Times'Breathtakingly Powerful' – LoveReading

Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to find his family and save his young sister, before time runs out. Voyaging deeper and deeper into a Japan ‘between the worlds’, Akira and his companions encounter a host of yokai monsters and famous ghosts, discovering a sometimes comical and sometimes terrifying world of interlinked and ghostly short stories along the way.

In der geheimnisvollen Zirkuswelt des MYSTERIUM kennt sich Danny mit Kartentricks, Hypnose und Entfesselungsnummern bestens aus. Doch als seine Eltern bei einem rätselhaften Brand in ihrem Zirkuswagen ums Leben kommen, bricht für Danny eine Welt zusammen. Er zieht zu seiner Tante Laura, einer Journalistin, aber auch dort kommt er nicht zur Ruhe. Nachdem eine Explosion seine Schule erschüttert, nimmt Laura ihren Neffen auf eine Recherchereise über die chinesische Mafia nach Hongkong mit. Und im Wirrwarr der asiatischen Metropole geschieht das Unfassbare. Laura verschwindet spurlos und Danny steht vor der Herausforderung seines Lebens.Action, Adrenalin und Magie – das sind die Fesseln, die Julian Sedgwick uns anlegt. Es wird schwer, sich aus diesem Roman zu befreien!Aus dem Englischen von Henning Ahrens

Danny Woo ist dem Tod in Hongkong gerade noch mal von der Schippe gesprungen, aber die Herausforderungen nehmen kein Ende. Anstatt sich von den Strapazen seines Asien-Abenteuers zu erholen, macht er sich auf den Weg nach Barcelona, wo der ehemalige Zirkus MYSTERIUM sich nach dem tragischen Tod seiner Eltern zum ersten Mal wieder neu formiert. Doch die Wiedersehensfreude mit der Kompanie ist getrübt, denn Dannys Verdacht, dass es im MYSTERIUM einen Maulwurf gibt, lastet schwer. Doch kein Auftragskiller, keine halsbrecherische Verfolgungsjagd durch die engen Gassen der katalonischen Hauptstadt und auch keine Leiche, die die brutale Handschrift der Neunundvierzig trägt, können Danny davon abhalten, die Puzzleteile seiner Vergangenheit zusammenzusammeln.Schwindelerregende Höhen, ein tiefer Fall und ein Leben am seidenen Faden - Julian Sedgwick zündet die Lunte, die seine Publikum für diese Trilogie brennen lässt!

Die turbulenten Ereignisse in Barcelona haben den Zirkus Mysterium ordentlich ins Wanken gebracht. Die Kompanie bricht daher die Zelte ab und zieht nach Berlin weiter. Für Danny gleicht diese Reise einer Verabredung mit dem Schicksal, schließlich fanden seine Eltern dort ihr tragisches Ende. Das Wiedersehen mit der deutschen Hauptstadt reißt alte Wunden auf, aber Danny gibt nicht auf, sondern lässt sich nicht von seiner Suche nach dem vermeintlichen Maulwurf in der Truppe abbringen. Nur einen letzten Schlüssel zur Lösung gilt es noch zu finden, während sich ein dunkler Schatten über den gesamten Zirkus legt.Julian Sedgwick sorgt mit dem atemberaubenden Finale seiner MYSTERIUM-Trilogie dafür, dass seinen Lesern das Blut in den Adern gefriert.