Jonathan Stroud, Author . Hyperion/Miramax $17.95 (462p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1859-4
A seemingly omniscient narrator begins this darkly tantalizing tale set in modern-day London, ushering readers into a room where the temperature plunges, ice forms on the curtains and ceiling, and the scent of brimstone fills the air. Suddenly, the...
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Jonathan Stroud, Author . Hyperion/Miramax $7.99 (462p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5255-0
In a starred review, PW
called this novel narrated by an ancient djinn, Bartimaeus, bonded to a 10-year-old magician in modern-day London a "darkly tantalizing tale. Readers will eagerly anticipate the next two volumes." Ages 10-up. (June)
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Jonathan Stroud, Author . Hyperion $17.95 (562p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1860-0
The sharp-witted shape-shifting djinni returns in Stroud's second volume of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, this time dealing with a mysterious attacker that is terrorizing London. Nathaniel (aka John Mandrake), now 14, is apprenticed to Jessica...
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Jonathan Stroud, Author . Hyperion/Miramax $17.95 (501p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1861-7
Three years have passed since the events of The Golem's Eye
, but there's more trouble than ever in the young magician Nathaniel's London. At 17, he's climbed to the highest ranks of the British government but his now-"crippling&#
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Jonathan Stroud, Author . Hyperion $7.99 (562p) ISBN 978-0-7868-3654-3
"The sharp-witted shape-shifting djinni returns in this second volume of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, this time dealing with a mysterious attacker that is terrorizing London," wrote PW
in a starred review. Ages 10-up. (Jan.)
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Jonathan Stroud, Author . Disney-Hyperion $17.99 (483p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0966-2
Witty and cinematic storytelling propels Stroud's engrossing novel, set in a medieval world that recalls Norse epics—no gods, but plenty of heroes to go around. Twelve Houses control sections of a valley. Halli Sveinsson—at 15, the...
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Jonathan Stroud, Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4231-2372-9
In this exciting prequel set in ancient Israel, Stroud presents an early adventure of his sharp-tongued djinn, Bartimaeus. King Solomon has risen to greatness due to the unparalleled power of his magical ring, but having had his marriage proposal...
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Jonathan Stroud. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4231-6491-3
In what has come to be called “the Problem,” the British Isles have become plagued with ghostly Visitors in this highly entertaining first book in Stroud’s Lockwood & Co. series. Since children and young teenagers are most able to sense the ghosts,...
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Jonathan Stroud, read by Miranda Raison. Listening Library, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-8041-2314-3
Stroud’s first entry in his new Lockwood & Co. series begins with all manner of spirits and ghosts haunting London. To address what becomes known as “the Problem,” young Lucy Carlyle, Anthony Lockwood, and George Cubbins must rid England of its...
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Jonathan Stroud. Knopf, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-43036-1
After handily knocking over a bank to settle a debt, red-haired, gimlet-eyed Scarlett McCain—“no ties, no allegiance”—disappears into the woodland wastes between England’s Surviving Towns with a rucksack full of cash, her prayer mat and cuss-box,...
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