The Dark is Rising
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  • Published: 30 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241623916
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $36.00

The Dark is Rising

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Paperback
25 Apr 2023
Paperback
1 Oct 2013
Hardback
30 May 2023
EBook
23 May 2024
EBook
1 Aug 2013
Audiobook
11 Oct 2005
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'This is probably one of the greatest fantasy sequences ever written. Darkly magical and intense Cooper weaves her storytelling wonder over fully realised characters and worlds, drawing in the reader and leading them on a journey that will leave them clambering for the rest of the series.' - BookTrust

It's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.
  • Published: 30 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241623916
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $36.00
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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.

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The Grey King
Greenwitch
Silver on the Tree
Haunted
The Boggart And the Monster
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