The Murdstone Trilogy is fantasy - and it's anti-fantasy! It's a trilogy - it's not a trilogy. It's like nothing else. It's a nobble. One of the funniest, cleverest, most entertaining stories you'll ever read.
In a much-acclaimed career, Mal Peet accrued literary awards in the UK, USA and Europe, including the Branford Boase Award, Carnegie Medal, Nestle Children's Book Award and the Guardian Prize. He is sorely missed by both his loving family and the literary world.
A genuinely funny comedy - with a Pratchettian mix of gusto and
warmth...This may be Mal Peet's first book for grownups, but it is
an assured, even virtuoso, performance fully deserving that most
prestigious of accolades - a rave review in the Guardian
*Guardian*
Read it whatever your age and find yourself laughing pretty well at
every page - it really is that good
*Independent*
Comic gold . . . deliciously funny, and the story-within-a-story is
a glorious send-up of the genre
*Financial Times*
The Murdstone Trilogy has instantly become one of my favourite
books - right up there with Terry Pratchett and The Princess Bride
for fantasy comedy. The writing is sublime and the humour is
lacerating. I loved every warped sentence
*Eoin Colfer*
[Murdstone and Pocket are] expertly drawn... A refreshing and
absorbing change of pace
*SFX Magazine*
I enjoyed this novel hugely. It had a fat, throbbing vein of dark
hilarity running right through the middle, with skewered literary
personages shrieking and wittering either side. It's a complete
nutty fantasy, and yet there's enough weird truth in it to really
worry any writer - oh, okay, any reader - who picks it up. If
you've ever wondered what the heck writers do all day, The
Murdstone Trilogy will give you a good idea - bwahaha -
*Margo Lanagan*
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