Shadow Town

Richard Lambert

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Shadow Town

Richard Lambert
Dimensions

198mm x 129mm
Format

Paperback
ISBN

9781911427223
Published

October 21st 2021
Author

Richard Lambert

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Toby leads a quiet life in London until a mysterious shadow appears, taking Toby into another world.
In a dangerous land enslaved by the cruel Regent, where the Dreamers have the magical power to turn dreams into reality, Toby meets Tamurlaine, a strange girl who has lost her memory. To uncover the mystery of her identity and get Toby back home, the pair must go on a thrilling journey to the heart of the kingdom, the castle of the Regent …

For an interview with Richard in which he talks about  the inspiration for Shadow Town and reads a extract from the book  Reading Zone

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‘An evocative fantasy from the acclaimed author of The Wolf Road’ Sunday Times, One to Watch

‘If you like a dose of magical realism with your gothic novel, this sprawling new story from Richard Lambert (The Wolf Road) is for you. In a dangerous land enslaved by the cruel Regent where the Dreamers can turn dreams into reality, Toby meets Tamurlaine, a peculiar girl who has lost her memory. To uncover the mystery of her identity and get Toby back home, the pair must go on a journey to the castle of the Regent.’  Times & Sunday Times, Best Children’s Books  of 2021

‘Richly imagined, Shadow Town confirms that Lambert’s dazzling debut The Wolf Road wasn’t a one-off. Financial Times

‘Astonishing, funny and immersive’ Hilary McKay

‘Page-turning excitement in the narrative; and, as readers of Lambert’s debut novel, The Wolf Road, will anticipate, this wandering tale often surprises in its poetic exploration of language’ Books for Keeps

‘A sprawling, surreal epic that shimmers with shadows and with images that linger like a dream. It is strange and haunting and impossible to ignore’ Chris Soul

Book Details

Dimensions

198mm x 129mm
Format

Paperback
ISBN

9781911427223
Published

October 21st 2021
Author

Richard Lambert
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Richard Lambert

Richard Lambert was born in London. He has had many different jobs including teaching medieval history. For the last ten years he has lived in Norfolk where he works for the NHS and writes stories and poems. One of his stories was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and another won the Fish Short Story Prize, and his poems have been in the Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, and The Forward Prize Anthology. His second poetry collection, The Nameless Places, was published in 2017 and many of the poems in it are a response to the landscape around the River Waveney, on the Suffolk-Norfolk border. The collection was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards.