Catherine Fisher is an award-winning fantasy writer and author of the New York Times bestseller Incarceron. The Oracle was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award 2003, The Conjuror's Game for the Smarties Award, and The Snow-Walker's Son for the WH Smith Mind Boggling Award. She has also been shortlisted and has won the Tir-Na-n'Og Award. Author of many books for children and two volumes of award-winning poetry, she is particularly well-known in Wales and spent two years as the first Welsh Young People's Laureate.
A captivating web of fantasy... fantastic. * Daily Record * A wonderful follow-up to The Obsidian Mirror. * Bookbag * Not for the fainthearted...it is a rewarding experience * Books For Keeps * Certain to elevate Fisher's status in the world of British fantasy. * The Daily Telegraph * Fisher's luminous prose makes you belive this cursed marriage between science, history and magic is possible * New Statesman * The long-awaited third in a quartet of novels * South Wales Argus (Newport) *