Mortal Engines Quartet #4: A Darkling Plain Award-winning by Philip Reeve (author)

The shattering final instalment of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines series flings you back into his blasted world of predator cities, ruinous wars and terrifying Stalkers. Abandoned by Hester, Tom and Wren stumble across the wreckage of a vast traction city: London. As the Green Storm take arms and the truce with the Traction Cities splinters, the world is once again on a collision course – beginning and ending in London’s ruined shell. As everything Tom and Hester know and love hurtles towards apocalypse, who will be left to tell the tale?

In A Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve has created a closing book which matches the power and tension of the first episode. Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2007, this epic finale brings the series to a visceral, heartbreaking close.

Product Details

Series

Mortal Engines Quartet (book 4)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407152110

Date published

September 3rd, 2015

Other details

592 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.