The Poisoned King
by Katherine Rundell
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Pub Date Sep 16 2025 | Archive Date Sep 09 2025
Bloomsbury ANZ | Bloomsbury Children's
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Description
Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.
When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...
The unmissable sequel to Impossible Creatures, WINNER of the Waterstones Book of the Year, British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, Foyles Children's Book of the Year and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award
Advance Praise
An absolutely marvellous piece of high adventure and fantasy, with so many underlying themes to unpack: loyalty and treachery, greed and generosity, revenge, justice, courage and compassion.
What can I say? Again I put it easily on a par (if not surpassing) with such as Pullman, whose work I adore, creating a world in which readers will become fully immersed, forming attachments to characters who become real to us and rousing our emotions on their behalf as they strive against all odds.
- Sue Warren, ANZ Teacher-Librarian, Just So Stories
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781408897454 |
| PRICE | A$18.99 (AUD) |
| PAGES | 336 |
