The Murdstone Trilogy

Name: The Murdstone Trilogy
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Mal Peet
ISBN: 9781511308250

Author: Mal Peet

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio

Published: 09/22/2015

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Fantasy, Contemporary

Synopsis

How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? From Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet comes an outrageously funny black comedy about an impoverished literary writer who makes a pact with the devil.Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip—allergic to the faintest trace of Tolkien—is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences. The Murdstone Trilogy is a richly dark comedy described by one U.K. reviewer as “totally insane in the best way possible.”

About Mal Peet

Mal Peet published his first novel, Keeper, in 2003. It was translated into several languages and won the Branford Boase Award. He next won the Carnegie Medal in 2005 and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2009, as well as a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor in 2012 for Life: An Exploded Diagram. Born in Norfolk, England, in 1947, Mal Peet died in 2015.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on November 17, 2014

This book was totally insane in the best way possible. I really really have no idea how to review it if I'm honest but I'll do my best and we will see how we go. Wonderfully weird and terribly clever I don't think I've ever read a book like this one - Philip Murdstone, ex teacher, is encouraged to wr......more

Goodreads review by Trin on August 30, 2018

First, let me state the obvious: publishing this book as YA was definitely a mistake. It is extremely not YA: the subject matter is far too adult (and I don’t just mean all the drinking and masturbation, but the concerns of the characters) and the vocabulary would likely put 99% of YA readers off. T......more

Goodreads review by Sally on December 29, 2014

Brilliantly funny, superb writing and so very, very clever. Wish I'd thought of it.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 19, 2015

I just . . . what did I just read? I mean, seriously, what was this? It was awesome, that's what it was. A magnificent skewering of modern publishing and the fantasy genre in particular, I wouldn't put this down, and I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard. It also made me slightly uncomfortable bec......more

Goodreads review by Megan on July 14, 2016

So, can you guess which book The Murdstone Trilogy was a read-along for? It's about an author of young adult books about tortured young men, whose oeuvre has gone out of oeuv. His agent convinces him that what needs to be written is a work of High Phantasy, a quest tale for the ages, or at least for......more