Mortal Engines Prequel: Scrivener's Moon

Cities stay in one place, right? Not anymore. In a future land once known as Britain, a terrifying new city is being constructed. It’s the first-ever mobile city: a London on wheels, designed to roam the world and snack on smaller towns. Everybody in London is busy preparing to take to the road. But the nomad tribes left outside aren’t happy – and they’re getting ready for war. Meanwhile, young engineer Fever Crumb is on her own urgent mission to find the birthplace of the Scriven mutants, in the frozen wastelands of the North…

  • A dazzling prequel novel for the Mortal Engines series
  • Mortal Engines is now a film written by Peter Jackson
  • Fantasy by a superb writer at the height of his powers
  • Philip Reeve’s Here Lies Arthur won the Carnegie Medal

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    Philip Reeve

    Philip Reeve is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of the Mortal Engines books.

    Awards

    Philip has won many major awards, including the Nestle Smarties and Blue Peter prizes for Mortal Engines, the Guardian prize for A Darkling Plain and the Carnegie medal for Here Lies Arthur.

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