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Description for Kobal: Book 1
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Eleven-year-old Jade is from a normal suburban background but longs to be different - and is terrified when she finds that she is. Her world is thrown into chaos when she discovers she is one of seven gifted children who are the result of a secret government experiment intended to find a cure for inherited diseases; an experiment that was hijacked by the sinister Dr Kobal for his own purposes. But are those purposes science or sorcery? Kidnapped and transported suddenly from normality to a world of angels and demons, robotic beasts and hunters and hunted, Jade is plunged into ... Read more
Eleven-year-old Jade is from a normal suburban background but longs to be different - and is terrified when she finds that she is. Her world is thrown into chaos when she discovers she is one of seven gifted children who are the result of a secret government experiment intended to find a cure for inherited diseases; an experiment that was hijacked by the sinister Dr Kobal for his own purposes. But are those purposes science or sorcery? Kidnapped and transported suddenly from normality to a world of angels and demons, robotic beasts and hunters and hunted, Jade is plunged into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340930755
SKU
KSS0003904
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Paul Bryers
Paul Bryers is a highly acclaimed adult novel writer (The Used Woman's Book Club, The Prayer of the Bone) and a film, radio and theatre director and writer with substantial credits. These are his first children's novels.
Reviews for Kobal: Book 1
As a storyteller Bryers is superb Time Out Bryers imagines a world where superstition and science intertwine until finally, in the chilling climax, they merge Publishers Weekly Bryers may well be the best of his type now operating
Nick Hornby Sunday Times 'Part His Dark Materials with echoes of some of Harry Potter's darker moments, Paul Bryers takes the ... Read more
Nick Hornby Sunday Times 'Part His Dark Materials with echoes of some of Harry Potter's darker moments, Paul Bryers takes the ... Read more