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Series: Impossible Creatures

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'Katherine Rundell returns with a perfect fantasy' Telegraph** BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS' AWARD WINNER **The unmissable new story in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling Impossible Creatures series, for fans of Philip Pullman, Percy Jackson and Skandar. 'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there... Read More

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Return to the magic of the Archipelago… The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.

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'Katherine Rundell returns with a perfect fantasy' Telegraph

** BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS' AWARD WINNER **

The unmissable new story in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling Impossible Creatures series, for fans of Philip Pullman, Percy Jackson and Skandar.

'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' – Michael Morpurgo

When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...

Awards and praise for Impossible Creatures
WINNER Waterstones Book of the Year
WINNER British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year
WINNER Foyles Children's Book of the Year
WINNER Books Are My Bag Readers Award

'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight' – Cressida Cowell

'Readers will seize this with delight' – Philip Pullman

'A masterpiece to rival Tolkien' – Daily Telegraph

'Every sentence sparkles ... Magnificent' – The Times

Impossible Creatures Sunday Times bestseller, December 2023

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ISBN: 9781408897478

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books

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Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, and in 2024 Katherine was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.