Mortal Engines Quartet #1: Mortal Engines Award-winning by Philip Reeve (author)

Fancy seeing the world? In Philip Reeve’s dystopian future, cities roam the world on wheels. And they’re hungry! London is a beast on wheels: a future city like you’ve never known before. After the apocalyptic Sixty Minute War, the world’s surviving cities turned predator – chasing and feeding on smaller towns. Now London is hunting. But something deadly is hiding on board. Oh – and we don’t mean the scarred angry girl with the knife… A blasted future. Moving cities. Stalking robotic hunters. A secret weapon that could blow the world apart (again). Want to see it all? Hitch a ride on London. Just mind the cyborg assassins. And don’t fall overboard.

Winner of the Smarties Gold Award and Blue Peter Prize

One of the most unique and thrilling fantasy worlds ever

Filled with wit, imagination and sci-fi/steampunk elements

Philip Reeve’s Here Lies Arthur won the Carnegie Medal

“Reeve has managed to marry the hugeness of his imagination with an utterly compelling and child-friendly storyline.” Anthony Horowitz

“This big, brave, brilliant book combines a thrilling adventure story with endless moral conundrums.” Guardian

Product Details

Series

Mortal Engines Quartet (book 1)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407152134

Date published

September 3rd, 2015

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.6; Middle years; 13.0 points

Other details

336 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Mortal Engines Quartet

Author/Illustrator

Philip Reeve

Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for years while also producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.

Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons and jokes for around forty books, including the best-selling Scholastic series Horrible Histories, as well as Murderous Maths and Dead Famous.

He’s been writing stories since he was five, but Mortal Engines was the first to be published. Mortal Engines defies easy categorisation. It is a gripping adventure story set in an inspired fantasy world, where moving cities trawl the globe. A magical and unique read, it immediately caught the attention of readers and reviewers and won several major awards. Three more Hungry Cities novels followed, and Philip’s latest project are the Fever Crumb books, prequels set centuries before the events of Mortal Engines.

Philip has also written Buster Bayliss, a series for younger readers, and stand alone novels including Here Lies Arthur, which won the Carnegie Medal.

Philip lives in Devon with his wife and son and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading.