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Dracula
A Retelling
Series: Classic Retellings
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Carnegie Medal winner Tanya Landman delivers a terrifyingly enthralling and truly accessible retelling of Bram Stoker’s legendary Gothic horror novel. Bram Stoker's Dracula is a masterpiece of horror fiction in which he creates a nightmarish world of vampires, evil-doing and insanity. A ship steered by a...
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Carnegie Medal winner Tanya Landman delivers a terrifyingly enthralling and truly accessible retelling of Bram Stoker’s legendary Gothic horror novel.
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Carnegie Medal winner Tanya Landman delivers a terrifyingly enthralling and truly accessible retelling of Bram Stoker’s legendary Gothic horror novel.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a masterpiece of horror fiction in which he creates a nightmarish world of vampires, evil-doing and insanity.
A ship steered by a dead man…
A huge black dog springing from its deck…
A girl, sleepwalking towards disaster…
When rising young solicitor Jonathan Harker helps the mysterious and sinister Count Dracula purchase property in London, he unleashes an evil that threatens to destroy the whole of humanity.
Particularly suitable for readers aged 13+ with a reading age of 9.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780008718343
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 May 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Barrington Stoke Ltd
Audience: Children, Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Tanya Landman is renowned for her thought-provoking, prize-winning novels including the beautifully "deft and dark", Carnegie Medal-winning Buffalo Soldier. In 2019 she won the Scottish Teenage Book Prize for her critically acclaimed novella One Shot. Tanya says that she loves how writing allows her to daydream - something she was always in trouble for at school! She lives in Devon with her sons, a Siamese cat and two Labradors.
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