Marcus Sedgwick Books In Order

Book of Dead Days Books In Order

  1. The Book of Dead Days (2003)
  2. The Dark Flight Down (2004)

Raven Mysteries Books In Order

  1. Flood and Fang (2009)
  2. Ghosts and Gadgets (2009)
  3. Lunatics and Luck (2010)
  4. Vampires and Volts (2010)
  5. Magic and Mayhem (2011)
  6. Diamonds and Doom (2011)

Cudweed Books In Order

  1. Cudweed’s Birthday (2011)
  2. Cudweed in Outer Space (2012)
  3. Cudweed’s Time Machine (2013)

Raven Boy & Elf Girl Books In Order

  1. Fright Forest (2012)
  2. Monster Mountains (2012)
  3. Scream Sea (2013)
  4. Dread Desert (2013)
  5. Terror Town (2014)
  6. Creepy Caves (2015)

Novels

  1. Floodland (2000)
  2. Witch Hill (2001)
  3. The Dark Horse (2002)
  4. Cowards (2003)
  5. A Christmas Wish (2003)
  6. The Foreshadowing (2005)
  7. My Swordhand Is Singing (2006)
  8. Blood Red, Snow White (2007)
  9. The Kiss of Death (2008)
  10. Revolver (2009)
  11. White Crow (2010)
  12. Midwinterblood (2011)
  13. Dark Satanic Mills (2013)
  14. She Is Not Invisible (2013)
  15. A Love Like Blood (2014)
  16. The Ghosts of Heaven (2014)
  17. Killing the Dead (2015)
  18. Mister Memory (2016)
  19. Saint Death (2016)
  20. The Monsters We Deserve (2018)
  21. Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black (2019)
  22. Snowflake, AZ (2019)
  23. Dark Peak (2021)
  24. Wrath (2022)

Omnibus

  1. The Dead Days Omnibus (2006)
  2. The Swordhand Omnibus (2011)

Collections

  1. The Great War (2015)
  2. I’ll Be Home For Christmas (2016)

Picture Books

  1. The Emperor’s New Clothes (2004)

Graphic Novels

  1. Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter (2018)

Non fiction

  1. Snow (2016)

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Marcus Sedgwick Books Overview

The Book of Dead Days

THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. The quick witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Praise for The Book of Dead Days: Beautifully paced and sometimes blood soaked…
. A very tangible sense of evil. The Guardian Subtle menace and power. The Independent Packed with drama, mystery, and intrigue. The BooksellerFrom the Hardcover edition.

The Dark Flight Down

In the morning you should think
You might not last unto the night
In the evening you should think
You might not last unto the morn

Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic, and deadly chases, but he is still on the run. Now, as the City lies frozen, he is captured and incarcerated in the Emperor Frederick’s palace. Boy is transported to a world of splendor, and wealth beyond his wildest imagining. But beneath its golden veneer, this world is full of madness and cruelty, closely guarded secrets, and terrifying revelations.
In a mesmerizing conclusion to the enthralling story begun in The Book of Dead Days, Boy and Willow are plunged into the heart of it the furies of the Emperor; the tricks of necromancers; a trail of blood that will lead to the grisly Phantom. Holding all their lives between its pages, The Book of Dead Days waits to deceive its next reader.

From the Hardcover edition.

Flood and Fang

Flood and Fang is the first of The Raven Mysteries, a series of adventures set in and around Otherhand Castle, featuring the odd doings of the strange Otherhand family, their acquaintances and servants. The stories are narrated by Edgar, an old, grumpy, but essentially good natured, raven who is the guardian of the castle and has witnessed many comings and goings. Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. Lord Valevine Otherhand will have his head in his books trying to invent the unthinkable and discover the unknowable. His wife Euphemia Minty for short will be busy being a spectacularly uninvolved parent which leaves 10 year old Cudweed at the mercy of Solstice his thin, black haired teenage sister. Luckily for Cudweed and, as it turns out for Edgar, Solstice is also quite smart so she may be able to help. As the lower storeys of the castle begin mysteriously to flood, the habitable portion of the castle shrinks, bringing the family ever closer to the owner of the black tail…

Ghosts and Gadgets

Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. The rumblings and wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored, as one by one, members of the castle are being found frozen, ‘scared to death’. With mother, Minty, obsessing over her latest fad – sewing – and father, Valevine, busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure, it’s up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice and Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual, things don’t go quite as planned…
It’s just as well Edgar is there to save the day! Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery with a touch of goth-froth for 9 year olds from bestselling author, Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black and white line illustrations from new talent, Pete Williamson. Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www. ravenmysteries. co. uk

Floodland

What if the sea began to rise…
and rise…
until the land began to disappear? A brilliant futuristic fantasy by an acclaimed new writer. Global warming has caused the sea to rise until cities are turning into islands and civilization is crumbling. Ten year old Zoe discovers a small rowboat and keeps it a secret until she sets out alone on the great sea to find her parents. She lands on tiny Eels Island, where she must survive in a nightmarish world run by wild children, and stand up to its boy leader, Dooby. Zoe and a boy called Munchkin escape from Eels Island and cross the sea to the mainland, where they find not only Zoe’s parents but a new family and a new world.

Witch Hill

Now I knew what it was like to wake from a deep sleep and still be afraid long after the nightmare is over. I stared into the darkness, not daring to move. It felt as if there wasn t enough air in the room. I struggled, gasping for breath. It was as if there was something else in the room, using up my air. The fire in his home was a family tragedy that Jamie can t forget. Fire dominates his waking thoughts and haunts his dreams. When his family sends him away to Crownhill to recover, they don t realize they are sending him to a village with its own dark history of witchcraft and ancient buried powers, unleashed by Jamie’s presence. As the dark secrets of Crownhill and its witches are revealed, Jamie has to confront his worst fears in order to free himself from the horrors of the past.

The Dark Horse

SIG IS A boy in a coastal tribe, the Storn, long ago in a Northern land. On the day of the wolf hunt, the life of the tribe changes forever, for Sig rescues a small girl, more like the wolves who shelter her than a human. Sig’s family adopts her and names her Mouse, and he becomes a loyal brother to this girl with mysterious powers and a secret past. The shocking discovery of Mouse s true identity brings to life a terrifying legend and leads to war, betrayal, and Sig s coming of age as he finds the wit and courage to save his tribe. Like an ancient cave painting come to life, Sedgwick s tale of dark enchantment depicts a primitive tribe in a north country. Publishers Weekly, Starred Will…
find a solid readership among historical fiction fans, thanks to the fast pace, hint of magic, and satisfyingly enigmatic conclusion. Booklist Employing a lean narrative voice and writing in short chapters that encourage page turning, Sedgwick draws readers along…
rich, involving, and vivifying. School Librabry Journal, StarredFrom the Hardcover edition.

A Christmas Wish

It’s Christmas Eve, but the weather is warm and the grass still green. Before falling asleep, a boy makes an urgent wish for a snowstorm like the one in his swirling snow globe. Later that night, something magical begins to happen. First one flake falls from the cloudless sky, then more and more and more! The world outside the boy’s window is soon taken over by the tumbling, twirling snow creatures that have brought the storm with them. And that’s not all they’ve brought! Santa himself makes an appearance with another surprise for the boy a pair of skates to wear as he skims across the frozen pond the next morning, marveling at the world transformed by his Christmas wish. Full of superbly surrealistic illustrations, this enchanting picture book features eight translucent pages that draw the reader into the magic of a seemingly impossible wish come true. Illustrated by Simon Bartram.

The Foreshadowing

It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well to do, sheltered English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don’t do that kind of work. But as the war begins and the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the hospital confirms what Sasha has suspected she can see when someone is going to die. Her premonitions show her the brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and the faces of the soldiers who will die. And one of them is her brother Thomas. Pretending to be a real nurse, Sasha goes behind the front lines searching for Thomas, risking her own life as she races to find him, and somehow prevent his death. From the Hardcover edition.

My Swordhand Is Singing

Brings fresh blood to the vampire mythos. Publishers Weekly, Starred In a bitter winter, Tomas and his son, Peter, settle in a small village as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast flowing waters around their hut so that they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn t understand why his father has done this, or why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know. But Tomas is a man with a past a past that is tracking him with deadly intent. As surely as the snow falls softly in the forest of a hundred thousand silver birch trees, father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny.A Junior Library Guild SelectionAn ALA YALSA Best Book for Young AdultsA New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

Blood Red, Snow White

Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It’s real history about the riches and excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas and Alexandra, their haemophiliac son, Alexei, notorious Rasputin, Lenin and Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man was real too, his name was Arthur Ransome. He was a writer, accused of being a spy, perhaps even a double agent, and he left his wife and beloved daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia. Fictionalising history and blending it with real life, part i is told as a fairy tale. Wise and foolish kings, princesses, enchantresses characters more suited to fairy tale than reality, wishes and magic, Russia with its vast cold plains and mighty cities, its riches and poverty, all play a part in the downfall of the Czars and rise of the new order. Part ii is about betrayal Ransome the spy, bleak and threatening. Part iii is a love story, a fairy tale, ending of Ransome’s love for his daughter, Tabitha, and for Evgenia.

The Kiss of Death

Marcus Sedgwick’s tale of Venice and vampires is a captivating companion volume to the bestselling My Swordhand is Singing. Marko and Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time. They must uncover the mystery of what has happened both to Sorrel’s father, plagued by a strange madness that prevents him from sleeping, and to Marko’s father, a doctor, who has mysteriously gone missing after travelling to Venice to help his old friend. Years on from My Swordhand is Singing and Peter is still on the trail of the Shadow Queen. His search leads him to Venice, a city whose beauty disguises many ugly secrets. The Shadow Queen is there, gathering strength, recruiting a new army of the Undead for a final confrontation. This fabled city with its lapping waterways, its crumbling magnificence, dark, twisting alleyways and surprising piazzas is the perfect setting for Marcus’s captivating gothic novel of love and loss in C18th Venice.

Revolver

In an isolated cabin in an Arctic wilderness, 14 year old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice on the lake outside and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then, out of the Arctic darkness, comes a stranger: a terrifying giant of a man claiming that Sig’s father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold and threatening awful violence if Sig doesn t reveal the gold s whereabouts. Sig knows nothing about the gold, but he does know that there s a loaded Colt Revolver hidden in the cabin s storeroom a gun that his father had said would protect him, but which his mother had abhorred. Revolver alternates between the lonely cabin and events during the Alaska Gold Rush ten years earlier, gradually unspooling the mystery of the stolen gold and the terrifying stranger, and building to a climax that turns on whether and why Sig will use the hidden gun. Revolver is a compelling frontier survival story, crafted with the intensity and precision of a one act play.

White Crow

Some secrets are better left buried; some secrets are so frightening they might make angels weep and the devil crow. Thought provoking as well as intensely scary, White Crow unfolds in three voices. There’s Rebecca, who has come to a small, seaside village to spend the summer, and there’s Ferelith, who offers to show Rebecca the secrets of the town…
but at a price. Finally, there’s a priest whose descent into darkness illuminates the girls’ frightening story. White Crow is as beautifully written as it is horrifically gripping.

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fable of vanity and pride is given a refreshing twist in this beautiful picture book illustrated by Alison Jay in her award winning crackle glaze style.

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