Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell - Signed Hardback, Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

Impossible Creatures is a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark Materials by Katherine Rundell, the award-winning author of The Explorer and The Wolf Wilder. It tells the story of a boy named Christopher who discovers that his reclusive grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a magical cluster of islands called the Archipelago. This place is home to all the mythical creatures we know from stories, such as griffins, sphinxes, and centaurs.

The story begins when Christopher witnesses an avalanche of these creatures coming down the hill while visiting his grandfather. He then meets a girl named Mal who has a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer, and is in pursuit of a baby griffin. Together with the griffin, they embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago to find the truth about their worlds and face the problem of power, knowledge, and love.

Impossible Creatures is a marvellous, imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle. It is a book that readers will race through in a day and keep for a lifetime. Rundell's writing is exuberant, wildly imaginative, and impossibly brilliant. Her world-building skills are on par with those of J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis.

Fans of His Dark Materials will love this new series by Katherine Rundell. It is a fierce, fantastic, wild-hearted adventure that roars and bristles with imagination. Impossible Creatures is a rare and remarkable feat of glittering imagination from a truly masterful storyteller.