"My favourite contemporary children's author is Philip Reeve" - Charlie Higson

An epic, thrilling, action-packed city-eat-city adventurestarring brave fighter Tamzin Pook, who must travel from the spectator sport combat arena in Margate to the Thunder City, where a chilling, ruthless villain has seized power. She will face Revenants - animal/machine hybridswith ferocious appetites - dangerous mercenariesand must learn to trust a group of oddballs whose eccentricities mask their huge hearts and steadfast courage.

• The Mortal Engines series has sold over half a million copies in the UK alone. Its epic appeal crosses all age ranges
• Reeve's novels have won the Guardian Children's Award, Blue Peter Award, Smarties Gold Prize and the Carnegie Medal.
• Mortal Enginesis now a feature film produced by Lord of the Ringsdirector, Peter Jackson