The Master of the Fallen Chairs (House of Skirl) - Softcover

Henry Porter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184616625X ISBN 13: 9781846166259

Publisher: Orchard, 2008

Synopsis

'He came on the shortest day of the year between the storms that carried the sea twenty miles inland and the great snow of that winter. But before his arrival there was an equally mysterious disappearance...' The first in a trilogy, THE MASTER OF THE FALLEN CHAIRS sees thirteen-year-old orphan Kim living with his elusive guardian, surly tutor and various servants in a grand but dilapidated old house called Skirl. When one of the servant girls goes missing, a dark cloud descends on the house. The arrival of a stranger in the dead of night plunges everything further into mystery, and introduces a bit of magic to the mix too...

About this title

About the Author

Henry Porter is the author of Lies Damned Lies (1984), an expose of British journalism, and four published adult novels: Remembrance Day (1999) A Spy's Life (2001), Empire State (2003) and Brandenburg (2005), which won the Ian Fleming Dagger Award for best thriller. In all, the books have sold to 13 territories. He studied art in Italy and then History of Art in Britain; he was then a magazine editor and newspaper executive for many years. Today he works as the London editor of the American magazine Vanity Fair, a job which entails fixing stories in the Middle East and Europe. He also writes political commentary for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. He is currently working on a documentary on civil liberties, commissioned by Channel Four, after a unique email debate with the Prime Minister in the Spring of 2006. He is married with two children.

Review

Nick Tucker in the Independent:'[...] for page-turning adventure involving a heroic 13-year-old up against horrors ancient and modern, Henry Porter's THE MASTER OF THE FALLEN CHAIRS is just the thing. A newcomer to writing for this age group, Porter plays a good hand before finally coming up trumps as his story heads to its powerful close." Independent "An excellent and compelling read." Young Post Porter writes with such imaginative zest that i felt as if i was pulling up a chair to a fire and would have enough to absorb me until spring. The Observer

Edition details

• Publisher: Orchard
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184616625X
• ISBN 13: 9781846166259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384