PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford in 1970. After studying English Literature at York University, he moved to London, where he worked as an editor in a publishing firm. He is also the author of the best-selling BARTIMAEUS sequence, which is published in 35 languages and has sold 6 million copies worldwide, and also of four other novels- HEROES OF THE VALLEY, THE LAST SIEGE, THE LEAP and BURIED FIRE. He lives in Hertfordshire with his family. He has yet to see a ghost, but is keeping his eyes open.
Genuinely spooky and suspenseful . . . all shot through with Stroud's dry wit * Guardian * One of those books you take with you to the bath . . . Packed with bloodcurdling spectral incident * Evening Standard *
