Flood and Fang, Marcus Sedgwick
Flood and Fang, Marcus Sedgwick
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Flood and Fang
Book 1

Author: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Unabridged: 2 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2009

Synopsis

Meet the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand.

Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. But his warnings to the inhabitants of the castle go unheeded: Lord Valevine Otherhand is too busy trying to invent the unthinkable and discover the unknowable; his wife, Minty, is too absorbed in her latest obsession - baking; and ten-year-old Cudweed is running riot with his infernal pet monkey. Only Solstice, the black-haired, poetry-writing Otherhand daughter, seems to pay any attention. As the lower storeys of the castle begin mysteriously to flood, and kitchen maids continue to go missing, the family come ever closer to the owner of the black tail...

Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk

Read by Martin Jarvis

(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd

About Marcus Sedgwick

Marcus Sedgwick (8 Apr 1968 - 15 Nov 2022) was the winner of many prizes, most notably the 2014 Michael L. Printz Award for his novel Midwinterblood. Marcus also received two Printz Honors, for Revolver in 2011 and The Ghosts of Heaven in 2016, giving him the most citations to date for America's most prestigious book prize for writing for young adults. Other notable award-winning books include Floodland, Marcus' first novel, which won the Branford-Boase Award in 2001; My Swordhand is Singing, which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize for 2007, and Lunatics and Luck, part of The Raven Mysteries series, which won a Blue Peter Book Award in 2011.Marcus' books have been shortlisted for over forty other awards, including the Carnegie Medal (seven times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (four times). He has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times, in 2016, 2017 and 2018.Marcus was Writer in Residence at Bath Spa University for three years, reviewed for The Guardian newspaper and taught creative writing at Arvon and Ty Newydd. He judged numerous books awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Costa Book Awards.

About Pete Williamson

Pete Williamson is an artist, illustrator and animation designer. His highly-acclaimed work includes the award-winning DINKIN DINGS AND THE FRIGHTENING THINGS and the wonderful gothic pottiness of Marcus Sedgwick's THE RAVEN MYSTERIES.Find his website at http://www.petewilliamson.co.uk/

About Martin Jarvis

Martin Jarvis is one of Britain's most versatile leading actors. His career, which began in the 1960's continues to encompass just about every aspect of the entertainment industry: film, television, theatre, radio and numerous audio recordings ranging from Just William, P.G Woodhouse to Jeffrey Archer. Martin has also read FLOOD AND FANG, the first in the Raven Mysteries series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jemima

Flood and Fang was one of the first books on my kindle to-read list. In a nutshell, Raven (the castle’s resident raven) spots a number of potentially nasty things going on in Otherhand Castle, and tries to draw them to the attention of the weird and wonderful characters who inhabit it. The ink-washed......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

"...when I woke this morning to find my bed floating out of the servants' quarters, I thought maybe something was wrong." 4 stars. This was such a fun read. There were definitely smiles and a couple of giggles. It's a very fast read too as I managed to get throught this in one day. I really like S......more

Goodreads review by M.

' "Nobody likes a sticky monkey." Truer words were never spoken.' Gloriously grim and deliciously dark, with a streak of humour as black as a raven's armpit at the bottom of a well at midnight on a moonless night. By turns silly, scary, vicious in the best playground sense, and disgusting in a way to......more

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