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"Langrish is a first-rate storyteller who deftly weaves into her tales vivid, well-researched domestic detail, real folklore and emotional intelligence." Amanda Craig, The Times Praise for Troll Blood: "The gripping climax mixes humour, adventure and imagination." Amanda Craig, The Times "An exciting and rewarding story, enriched by Langrish's wonderfully effective evocation of contemporary folklore! This is a lovely book. Read it. Read all three!" School Librarian "I love these books. Katherine Langrish is often compared to Alan Garner. She uses the same blend of history, mythology, fantasy and magic to spin a thumpingly good tale that is both realistic and dream-like! The historical details are awesomely researched." The Book Bag Praise for Troll Mill: "Despite the high drama of Troll Mill, it is moments of comedy! which will make children rock with delight and long for the further adventures of Peer." Amanda Craig, The Times Praise for Troll Fell: In Troll Fell Katherine Langrish has unearthed a captivating world. Bleak and captivating. Her style is quirky and hypnotic and her characters are instantly recognizable as someone you know, or someone you wish you didn't. Eoin Colfer "Troll Fell is a joy! a marvellous, magical adventure!" Amanda Craig, The Times "The style is enthralling, and the adventure persuasive and gripping. A juicy read for children." Independent on Sunday "From the opening page! Langrish's power to locate her story in the reader's imagination is reminiscent of Alan Garner." Sunday Telegraph Praise for Troll Fell: "Atmospheric, with lowering weather, storms and blizzards, luridly imaginative! with nice touches of humour!" Children's Bookseller "Troll Fell, exciting, funny, vividly written and tightly plotted, is steeped in the essence of Scandinavian folklore!" Carousel
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A gripping and wonderfully spooky standalone adventure from critically acclaimed author Katherine Langrish. When Wolf runs away from the monastery where he grew up, he finds himself lost on Devil's Edge -- a hill riddled with old mine shafts, said to be infested with ghosts, boggarts, elves, and perhaps even the Devil himself. Wolf meets a local knight out hunting, who offers him work and shelter in his castle -- a place inhabited by a host of unexpected characters -- a hearth hob, a ghostly white lady and a mysterious wandering juggler...Together Wolf and Nest, the knight's daughter, become embroiled in a mystery which leads Wolf into the very darkest depths of Devil's Edge...
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A haunting and fascinating story,
This review is from: Dark Angels (Paperback)
This is a very gripping and well-researched book. The details of medieval life are so well done that you really feel you're there, both in the castle and on the forbidding Devil's Edge. Wolf and Nest, the young hero and heroine come vividly off the page and the supernatural elements blend in with the real-life story in a totally believable way. A good one for both boys and girls...and their parents.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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utterly entrancing,
By Leslie Wilson (berkshire uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Angels (Paperback)
This is one of the best novels for children I've read for a long time. Langrish has created a magical world without a trace of whimsy, an engrossing read whose characters grip you right from the start. The thing is that in the Middle Ages people really saw the world differently, and this is how Langrish's characters experience their lives. I think it's this groundedness that makes the novel so utterly convincing. And there are the wonderful descriptions, so vivid, but utterly economical, they enhance the narrative, never divert attention from it. You can feel the snow, the cold wind, taste the good food.I loved Wolf and Nest, and the strange, dangerous jester, the obsessed, magnificent, yet pathetic Lord Hugo. I just had to keep on reading.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Loss and the Lost,
By Wench (West Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Angels (Paperback)
DARK ANGELS is a wonderful book, just brimming with the old stories, and echoes of them. We can follow the heroine, Nest, through her very real day, smelling the woodsmoke, feeling the rain, and yet when she turns and speaks to the hearth hob, which is 'about the size of a large cat' that's completely convincing and matter of fact too. And the White Lady is a wonderfully eerie ghost - all the more chilling, I felt, for being so pitiable.It's an exciting story, but what stayed with me, I think, was the wonderful sense of loss and the lost - the lost wife, the lost children, and the whole world of belief and mystery that's being destroyed by the advance of Christianity and the modern world.
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