Deep Secret - Softcover

Jones, Diana Wynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007507542 ISBN 13: 9780007507542

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2013

Synopsis

A fantasy adventure about saving the universe one world at a time from Diana Wynne Jones. The companion novel to the bestselling The Merlin Conspiracy.

Magids look after all worlds, steer them towards magic, and keep history happening. But Rupert Venables’ mentor has just died, and as the junior magid on earth he has to find a replacement while also trying to find the lost heir of a collapsing empire, worlds away. Rupert interweaves the fate lines to get all the candidates together at a sci-fi fantasy convention, and havoc ensues as they all converge on a very strange hotel, where everything is always linked, the walls keep moving, people are trying to kill him, and nothing is as it seems...a magical, epic story from the Godmother of fantasy.

About this title

Review:

“...Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears...”
Publishers Weekly

“Diana Wynne Jones ought to be crowned with coloured garlands because she is the best writer of magical fantasy for children in this country ” Evening Standard

“Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two ... [she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed.” SFX

Book Description:

When the fatelines of several worlds become entangled, chaos ensues and Something Must be Done: a hilarious fantasy from a 'British National Treasure' (Locus)

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0007507542
• ISBN 13: 9780007507542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528