Author: STEWART, PAUL (1955-) RIDDELL, CHRIS, [ILLUSTRATOR.]
Title: Free Lance and the lake of skulls / Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Description: London : Hodder Wayland 2003. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective plastic wrapping. Flat signed by author and illustrator. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 128 pages; Physical description. : 128 p. : ill. ; 20cm. Subject: Knights and knighthood - Fiction. Knights and knighthood - Juvenile fiction. Fantasy -- Novels. Summary: Free Lance is down on his luck and stuck in the Badlands. And as usual there is an oaf who wants to take him on. But that fight leads to a job offer which has enough gold attached to it to get him out of this hole: the local lord wants him to recover an enchanted crown from the middle of the lake of skulls. Of course he omits to tell Free Lance of the terrors that await. Full of drama and humour. this swashbuckling fantasy adventure introduces a marvellous new hero by two of the leading exponents of the genre with an action hero who is both charismatic and mysterious. and told in a laconic. Marlowesque first person narrative. Certain to be enjoyed by all readers of THE EDGE CHRONICLES and Terry Pratchett. and those aspiring to read them. Part of a unique range of books aimed at 11+s that through innovative integration of text and illustration are also accessible to those with reading abilities of as young as 7.ISBN: 0340874082. Weight in Kg appr.:

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