The Poisoned King

The Poisoned King

by Katherine Rundell
Publication Date: 11/09/2025

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The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is justice to be done.


Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.


'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' – Michael Morpurgo


When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon's lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...


The unmissable sequel to Impossible Creatures, WINNERof the Waterstones Book of the Year, British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, Foyles Children's Book of the Year and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award


'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight' – Cressida Cowell on Impossible Creatures


'Readers will seize this with delight*'* – Philip Pullman on Impossible Creatures


'A masterpiece to rival Tolkien*'* – Daily Telegraph on Impossible Creatures


'Every sentence sparkles ... Magnificent'– The Times on Impossible Creatures

ISBN:
9781408897461
9781408897461
Category:
Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)
Publication Date:
11-09-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe and is now a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

She is also the bestselling author of Rooftoppers, a story inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls.

Rooftoppers won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for many others. The Wolf Wilder is the first of three new novels with Bloomsbury.

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