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The Lives of Christopher Chant

Diana Wynne Jones

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English
HarperCollins
17 December 2025
Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favourite, exploring the childhood of Chrestmanci – now a book with extra bits!
Discovering that he has nine lives and is destined to be the next ‘Chrestomanci’ is not part of Christopher’s plans for the future: he’d much rather play cricket and wander around his secret dream worlds. But he soon finds that destiny is difficult to avoid, and that having more than the usual number of lives is pretty inconvenient – especially when you lose them as easily as he does!

Then an evil smuggler, known only as The Wraith, threatens the ways of the worlds and forces Christopher to take action…
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Imprint:   HarperCollins
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   Book 4
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   240g
ISBN:   9780008718909
ISBN 10:   0008718903
Series:   The Chrestomanci Series
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 9 years
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Children/juvenile ,  Children's (6-12) ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) spent her childhood in Essex and began writing fantasy novels for children in the 1970s. With her unique combination of magic, humour and imagination, she enthralled generations of children and adults with her work. She won the Guardian Award in 1977 with Charmed Life, was runner-up for the Children's Book Award in 1981 and was twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.

Reviews for The Lives of Christopher Chant

“…Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears…” Publishers Weekly “Truly magical – guaranteed to leave you gasping – even hotter than Potter” The Bookseller “Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two … [she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed.” SFX


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