The Poisoned King

The Poisoned King

by Katherine Rundell
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 11/09/2025

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'Katherine Rundell returns with a perfect fantasy' Telegraph


The unmissable new story in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling Impossible Creatures series, for fans of Philip Pullman, Percy Jackson and Skandar.


'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...


Awards and praise for Impossible Creatures

WINNER Waterstones Book of the Year

WINNER British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year

WINNER Foyles Children's Book of the Year

WINNER Books Are My Bag Readers Award


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


'Readers will seize this with delight*'* – Philip Pullman


'A masterpiece to rival Tolkien*'* – Daily Telegraph


'Every sentence sparkles ... Magnificent'– The Times


Impossible Creatures Sunday Times bestseller, December 2023

ISBN:
9781408897461
9781408897461
Category:
Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
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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