Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59643-800-2
“I always prefer a walk that goes in a circle.... Don’t you?” a woman named Bridget says to her daughter, Merle, at one point in this heady mystery that joins the remote northern setting of Sedgwick’s Revolver with the multigenerational scope of his
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Marcus Sedgwick. Norton, $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-324-00441-7
In a note to readers, Sedgwick (Saint Death) cites his own bout with a “disputed” chronic illness as an inspiration for this cautionary tale. Eighteen-year-old Ash is shocked to learn that his brother, Bly, has dropped out of the police academy in...
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Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-62672-549-2
Sedgwick (Blood Red Snow White) transports readers to the border city of Juarez in this grim study of the repercussions of U.S. policies and the market for narcotics on Mexico and its citizens. Arturo cobbles together a life in Anapra, “a little...
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Marcus Sedgwick. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68177-340-7
Fin de siècle Paris provides the backdrop for this outstanding thriller from Sedgwick (A Love like Blood), who creates a sense of intimacy with the reader through darkly humorous omniscient narration reminiscent of Dumas (“Paris at that time can be...
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Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62672-547-8
British children’s book author Arthur Ransome captured Printz-winner Sedgwick’s (Midwinterblood) imagination with his 1916 book, Old Peter’s Russian Tales. These stories, coupled with Ransome’s involvement in the Russian revolution as a journalist,...
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Marcus Sedgwick. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60598-683-8
YA author Sedgwick (Midwinter Blood) shifts triumphantly to adult fiction with this moving and multifaceted thriller, in which he subtly draws the reader into the haunted world of Englishman Charles Jackson, whom we meet as a 25-year-old captain in...
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Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62672-125-8
In a prehistoric era, a girl learns the secrets of the cave paintings that give her people their sustenance and identity. In 18th-century England, a priest campaigning against witchcraft and evil targets a young woman who inherits her mother’s role...
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Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59643-801-9
Printz-winner Sedgwick (Midwinterblood) again demonstrates his remarkable versatility, trading the generations-spanning horrors of his recent books for an equally tense contemporary story about coincidence, obsession, and the ways in which we see...
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author . Random/Lamb $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-73054-9
Like an ancient cave painting come to life, Sedgwick's (Floodland) tale of dark enchantment depicts primitive tribe in a north country, reminiscent of Norse sagas. Third-person narration alternates with the haunting first-person account of...
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Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook, $15.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59643-594-0
Sedgwick (Revolver) addresses themes of death and what may (or may not) await in the afterlife in this chilling story, told in three voices and in two parallel stories set 200 years apart. In contemporary England, teenage Rebecca reluctantly moves...
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author . Roaring Brook $16.99 (204p) ISBN 978-1-59643-592-6
Set in 1910, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle in the Scandinavian town of Giron, this intense survival story is propelled by a relentless sense of danger and bone-chilling cold. Einar, teenage Sig's father, has died after a fall through the
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author . Random/Lamb $15.99 (205p) ISBN 978-0-375-84689-2
Sedgwick’s (The Foreshadowing
) grim, atmospheric tale, set in 17th-century Europe, brings fresh blood to the vampire mythos without once using the word “vampire.” Peter and his father, Tomas, are woodcutters who travel from town...
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author . Random/Lamb $18.99 (293p) ISBN 978-0-385-74646-5
Sedgwick's (The Dark Horse
) powerful and haunting WWI story probes ideas of death and healing, fate and free will. Alexandra (Sasha) has the gift, or curse, of foreseeing a person's death. "I was five when I first saw the future,"...
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author . Random/Lamb $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-73055-6
The characters in Sedgwick's (The Dark Horse
) gothic chiller lurk in darkened theaters, alleyways and graveyards. The novel centers around a charlatan who years ago made a deal with a devil—and whose time is almost up. Valerian runs the...
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Marcus Sedgwick, illus. by Thomas Taylor. First Second, $14.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-62672-026-8
Scarlett Hart is a first-rate hunter of monsters, even if she is technically under the legal age to work for the local monster-hunting academy. With the help of her deceased parents’ staff—the ever-dapper and car-loving Napoleon, and the kind and...
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Marcus and Julian Sedgwick, illus. by Alexis Deacon. Walker Books US, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0437-7
Set in WWII London, as German bombings disrupt and destroy life, this ambitious novel from the Sedgwick brothers (Dark Satanic Mills) alternates between two voices: that of the mythical Greek musician Orpheus, and that of Briton Harry Black, a...
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Marcus Sedgwick, Retold by , illus. by Alison Jay. Chronicle $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4569-4
Sedgwick's (Floodland
) jaunty rhymed couplets and Jay's (The Race
) signature stylized artwork ably accentuate the wry humor of this Hans Christian Andersen tale. The author emphasizes the breezy cadence of the verse by sprinkling it with...
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author, Marcus Sedgwick, Illustrator Delacorte Press $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-32801-2
British illustrator Sedgwick's futuristic first novel begins with an interesting premise--that global warming has caused the seas to rise, submerging whole sections of England--but, unfortunately, the story does not fully succeed. Young Zoe, left...
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Marcus Sedgwick, Author, Simon Bartram, Illustrator , illus. by Simon Bartram. Dutton $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47195-0
Clever book design and witty, accomplished illustrations shore up a wisp of a plot as Sedgwick's (The Dark Horse) minimal text introduces a boy who lives in a warm, sunny region and fervently wishes "it would snow like it does in my snow...
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