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Photo © 2004 Rolf Marriott
author spotlight
Chris Riddell is the co-creator of the bestselling Edge Chronicles series, with Paul Stewart. He has illustrated many children’s books including the award-winning Pirate Diary. He is also the political cartoonist for the Guardian and Observer newspapers.
Talking to Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell about the Edge Chronicles
Q. What was your inspiration for The Edge Chronicles?
Paul: The Edge Chronicles started off with the map. Chris drew it and gave it to me saying, 'here is the world, tell me what happens there.'
Chris: I drew a map that looked like the edge of a map because I’ve always been fascinated by the edges of... Read More
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Edge Chronicles: Beyond the Deepwoods
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $6.99
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn’t one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the Deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $6.99
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn’t one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the Deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers... Read more >
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Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $6.99
Since his childhood in the DeepWoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a crew member on his father’s sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig. The lofty city of Sanctaphrax—built on a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $6.99
Since his childhood in the DeepWoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a crew member on his father’s sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig. The lofty city of Sanctaphrax—built on a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Edge Chronicles 9: Clash of the Sky Galleons
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $12.99
In the penultimate book in the Edge Chronicles series, Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. Having left behind his studies at the Knights Academy, Quint is now... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $12.99
In the penultimate book in the Edge Chronicles series, Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. Having left behind his studies at the Knights Academy, Quint is now... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles 7: Freeglader
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $12.95
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and his colleagues — the librarian knights, Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends — must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades. But perils aplenty are ahead for the crowd — not to mention some goblins with... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $12.95
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and his colleagues — the librarian knights, Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends — must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades. But perils aplenty are ahead for the crowd — not to mention some goblins with... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles 3: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $12.95
SANCTAPHRAX WILL BE destroyed by the energy of the Mother Storm. . . .
Far over the Edge, the Mother Storm is brewing—a storm more terrifying than any seen in the lifetime of any Edgelander. Sweeping in from the open sky, it must strike the source of the Edgewater River to... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $12.95
SANCTAPHRAX WILL BE destroyed by the energy of the Mother Storm. . . .
Far over the Edge, the Mother Storm is brewing—a storm more terrifying than any seen in the lifetime of any Edgelander. Sweeping in from the open sky, it must strike the source of the Edgewater River to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Edge Chronicles 1: Beyond the Deepwoods
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $12.95
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn’t one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the Deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $12.95
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn’t one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the Deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles 2: Stormchaser
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $12.95
Since his childhood in the DeepWoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a crew member on his father’s sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig. The lofty city of Sanctaphrax—built on a... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $12.95
Since his childhood in the DeepWoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a crew member on his father’s sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig. The lofty city of Sanctaphrax—built on a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles 4: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
‘Oh, Sky above!’ Linius wailed. ‘If I had known then what I know now…’
Quint, son of a sky pirate captain, and new apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe, has been set some highly important tasks. Just how important, Quint is about to find out as he and Linius’s only... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
‘Oh, Sky above!’ Linius wailed. ‘If I had known then what I know now…’
Quint, son of a sky pirate captain, and new apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe, has been set some highly important tasks. Just how important, Quint is about to find out as he and Linius’s only... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles 6: Vox
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $12.95
In the second novel in the Rook Barkwater sequence, the young knight librarian attempts to stop the dark might of the Most High Academe. High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix is brewing a terrible plot to take over power in Edgeworld once again. Can Rook foil Vox's... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $12.95
In the second novel in the Rook Barkwater sequence, the young knight librarian attempts to stop the dark might of the Most High Academe. High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix is brewing a terrible plot to take over power in Edgeworld once again. Can Rook foil Vox's... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $6.99
SANCTAPHRAX WILL BE destroyed by the energy of the Mother Storm. . . .
Far over the Edge, the Mother Storm is brewing—a storm more terrifying than any seen in the lifetime of any Edgelander. Sweeping in from the open sky, it must strike the source of the Edgewater River to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $6.99
SANCTAPHRAX WILL BE destroyed by the energy of the Mother Storm. . . .
Far over the Edge, the Mother Storm is brewing—a storm more terrifying than any seen in the lifetime of any Edgelander. Sweeping in from the open sky, it must strike the source of the Edgewater River to... Read more >
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Muddle Earth
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $7.99
Joe Jefferson is an ordinary schoolboy from ordinary Earth. At least, he was. But something strange happened when he was walking his dog, and now he's Joe the Barbarian—fearless warrior-hero, summoned by Muddle Earth's leading wizard* to slay ogres, wrestle dragons, and bravely confront villains.
Joe doesn't feel much like a warrior-hero.**... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $7.99
Joe Jefferson is an ordinary schoolboy from ordinary Earth. At least, he was. But something strange happened when he was walking his dog, and now he's Joe the Barbarian—fearless warrior-hero, summoned by Muddle Earth's leading wizard* to slay ogres, wrestle dragons, and bravely confront villains.
Joe doesn't feel much like a warrior-hero.**... Read more >
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Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
The newest paperback installment in the exciting Edge Chronicles!
Rook Barkwater lives in the network of sewer-chambers beneath Undertown, the bustling main city of the Edgeworld. He dreams of becoming a librarian knight—one of those sent out to explore the mysteries of their world. When his chance comes, Rook grabs it! Breaking... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
The newest paperback installment in the exciting Edge Chronicles!
Rook Barkwater lives in the network of sewer-chambers beneath Undertown, the bustling main city of the Edgeworld. He dreams of becoming a librarian knight—one of those sent out to explore the mysteries of their world. When his chance comes, Rook grabs it! Breaking... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Edge Chronicles: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $6.99
In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme and bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail—mistsifting, fogprobing, researching the air blowing in from beyond the Edge. But some experiments are best left alone. . . .
Quint is the son of a sky pirate captain... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $6.99
In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme and bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail—mistsifting, fogprobing, researching the air blowing in from beyond the Edge. But some experiments are best left alone. . . .
Quint is the son of a sky pirate captain... Read more >
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Far-Flung Adventures: Hugo Pepper
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.99
A brilliantly inventive, fabulously illustrated addition to the Far- Flung Adventures series from the award-winning, bestselling author and
illustrator team Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Set in the same world as the Fergus Crane and Corby Flood stories, this is the tale of a small boy, Hugo Pepper, and his amazing exploits... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.99
A brilliantly inventive, fabulously illustrated addition to the Far- Flung Adventures series from the award-winning, bestselling author and
illustrator team Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Set in the same world as the Fergus Crane and Corby Flood stories, this is the tale of a small boy, Hugo Pepper, and his amazing exploits... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Far-Flung Adventures: Corby Flood
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Price: $14.95
The second magical, funny, and fabulously illustrated story in the Far Flung Adventures from the authors of Fergus Crane and the Edge Chronicles.
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed that anything is... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Price: $14.95
The second magical, funny, and fabulously illustrated story in the Far Flung Adventures from the authors of Fergus Crane and the Edge Chronicles.
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed that anything is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Edge Chronicles 5: The Last of the Sky Pirates
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $12.95
A dramatic and exuberant fantasy adventure filled with colourful and imaginative characters and illustrated with exquisite detail.
Fifty years after the floating city of Sanctaphrax was swept away, the Edgeworld has changed for the worse. Cruel shrykes control the great Mire Road, while slave labour is endemic.
When a young apprentice knight-academic... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $12.95
A dramatic and exuberant fantasy adventure filled with colourful and imaginative characters and illustrated with exquisite detail.
Fifty years after the floating city of Sanctaphrax was swept away, the Edgeworld has changed for the worse. Cruel shrykes control the great Mire Road, while slave labour is endemic.
When a young apprentice knight-academic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles: Vox
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
The newest paperback installment in the exciting Edge Chronicles!
In the second novel in the Rook Barkwater sequence, the young knight librarian attempts to stop the dark might of the Most High Academe. High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix—the Most High Academe in name, but really no more... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
The newest paperback installment in the exciting Edge Chronicles!
In the second novel in the Rook Barkwater sequence, the young knight librarian attempts to stop the dark might of the Most High Academe. High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix—the Most High Academe in name, but really no more... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Edge Chronicles 5: The Last of the Sky Pirates
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 384 pages
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $14.99
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Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 384 pages
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $14.99
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Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.99
BARNABY GRIMES IS a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and “highstacking” around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog and soon finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.99
BARNABY GRIMES IS a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and “highstacking” around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog and soon finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles 8: The Winter Knights
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $12.99
In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy—training that involves heading out over the Edge on tethers to develop his flying skills. But... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $12.99
In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy—training that involves heading out over the Edge on tethers to develop his flying skills. But... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.99
Barnaby Grimes isa tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. This is a fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city, with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby.
After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.99
Barnaby Grimes isa tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. This is a fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city, with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby.
After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
hardcover library binding.
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Edge Chronicles 1: Beyond the Deepwoods
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 288 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $14.99
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn’t one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the Deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 288 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $14.99
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn’t one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the Deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers... Read more >
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Edge Chronicles 4: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 384 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.99
‘Oh, Sky above!’ Linius wailed. ‘If I had known then what I know now…’
Quint, son of a sky pirate captain, and new apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe, has been set some highly important tasks. Just how important, Quint is about to find out as he and Linius’s only... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 384 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.99
‘Oh, Sky above!’ Linius wailed. ‘If I had known then what I know now…’
Quint, son of a sky pirate captain, and new apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe, has been set some highly important tasks. Just how important, Quint is about to find out as he and Linius’s only... Read more >
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Far-Flung Adventures: Fergus Crane
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP.
Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo
Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life—having lessons taught by rather odd teachers on the school ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a mysterious flying box appears at the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP.
Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo
Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life—having lessons taught by rather odd teachers on the school ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a mysterious flying box appears at the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Edge Chronicles 2: Stormchaser
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 400 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $14.99
Since his childhood in the DeepWoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a crew member on his father’s sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig. The lofty city of Sanctaphrax—built on a... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 400 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2004
Price: $14.99
Since his childhood in the DeepWoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a crew member on his father’s sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig. The lofty city of Sanctaphrax—built on a... Read more >
