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Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
A new historical fantasy novel full of mystery and suspense, set in turn-of-the-century Prague.
What awaits Jack, Annie and Davey when they are transported back in time to the gothic city of Prague, to search for their missing parents Trying to avoid capture by the secret police, they find themselves running through dark and dangerous cobbled streets and meet some very shady characters.
Where are their parents and who has stolen the key to the time machine
Alchemists, mythical creatures and a man with a hook for a hand hold the answers they're looking for.
Will our young heroes be in time to save their parents from eerie Karlstein Castle And even if they do, how will they return to the present day without the key
Garry Kilworth
Garry Kilworth (1941 -)
Garry Douglas Kilworth was born in York in 1941 and travelled widely as a child, his father being a serviceman. After seventeen years in the RAF and eight working for Cable and Wireless, he attended King's College, London University, where he obtained an honours degree in English. Garry Kilworth has published novels under a number of pseudonyms in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction and Children's Fiction, winning the British and World Fantasy Awards and being twice shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Award for Children's Literature.
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