The Dark is Rising
  • Published: 1 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099583080
  • Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $21.00

The Dark is Rising

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Good battles evil as the future of the world hangs in the balance, in this Carnegie shortlisted novel.

Enter the magical world of Susan Cooper. Perfect for fans of His Dark Materials.

It's Christmas-time in the Stanton family house: presents, carol singing, good cheer. But for eleven-year-old Will Stanton, something sinister has begun, inching round his subconscious, shouting silent warnings he can't decipher. Then on Midwinter Day, Will wakes up to a different world: silent, covered in snow and ancient forest, a world of another time. A world where evil lurks.

Because Will is not the ordinary boy he always thought he was. He is the last of the Old Ones and the power to vanquish the evil magic of the Dark lies within him.

Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can read an interview with the author and discover the ancient beliefs that inspired the story.
  • Published: 1 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099583080
  • Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $21.00
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About the author

Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper was born in Buckinghamshire, read English at Oxford and began her career as a reporter and feature-writer for the Sunday Times. She then married an American and moved to the United States. Her sequence of fantasy novels for young adults, The Dark Is Rising, has won numerous international awards, including the Newbery Medal, and has been translated into eleven languages. She has written a number of other books for children and adults, a Broadway play, and several films for television and the cinema. She has two children and lives in Fairfield, Connecticut. Susan is married to the Canadian actor Hume Cronyn.

Also by Susan Cooper

Over Sea, Under Stone
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
Haunted
The Boggart And the Monster
The Boggart
The Boggart Fights Back
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Praise for The Dark is Rising

I wish I had written these!

Diana Wynne Jones

Cooper has been writing richly imaginative works of fantasy for nearly four decades. Her books are critically acclaimed and she has a loyal and devoted following among readers

booktrusted.co.uk

A writer of great integrity and skill, whose influence and importance in the field of children's fantasy will be felt for a long time

Philip Pullman

The Dark Is Rising sequence of novels by Susan Cooper must be one of the most imaginative and sustained achievements in contemporary children's literature

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