Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse MINT DOUBLE SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION with POSTCARD & EXCLUSIVE EXTRA STORIES

Maggie Fergusson; Michael Morpurgo

ISBN 10: 0007387261 / ISBN 13: 9780007387267

Published by Fourth Estate, 2012

About this Item

A mint first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper. This unread gift condition copy is SIGNED and Publication Day DATED 18.VII.12 by the Biographer Maggie Fergusson to the title page. A SIGNED MM bookplate is loose laid in for affixing if desired along with a related postcard.There are seven extra Michael Morpurgo stories with this superb exclusive first edition An outstanding copy. BOXED DESPATCH.

Seller Inventory # ABE-18326374804

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse MINT DOUBLE SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION with POSTCARD & EXCLUSIVE EXTRA STORIES
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007387261
• ISBN 13: 9780007387267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Michael Morpurgo is a Pied Piper. Through books such as ‘Private Peaceful’, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and ‘The Wreck of the Zanzibar’ he has enchanted a whole generation of children, weaving stories for them in a way that is neither contrived nor condescending. His is a rare gift. But it is not only children he holds in his thrall. In 2007, Michael’s novel ‘War Horse’ was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre. Five years on, it continues to play to packed audiences of all ages in the West End and New York, and later this year it will tour America, as well as opening in Toronto and Australia. Steven Spielberg, meantime, has made it into a film. The story of a Devon horse sent to fight on the Western Front has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Michael’s own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. How did this supremely unbookish boy who dreamed of becoming an army officer become a bestselling author instead? What personal price has he paid for success? And why, amidst his triumphs, is he now haunted by regret? In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgo’s life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven stories. The biographical portrait that emerges is one of light and shade: the light very bright, the shade complex and often painful. Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of the Economist magazine Intelligent Life. Her first book, George Mackay Brown: the Life, won the Saltire First Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, the Yorkshire Post Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Biography Award.

About the Author

Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of Intelligent Life. Her first book, George Mackay Brown: The Life, won the Saltire First Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Biography Award. Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best-loved writers for children. He was written over 100 books and won many prizes, including the Blue Peter Book Award and the Whitbread Award. His bestselling novels include Kensuke's Kingdom, Shadow, Private Peaceful, An Elephant in the Garden and Born to Run. He was made Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005, a role which took him all over the country to inspire children with the joy of reading stories.