Clockwork or All Wound Up

Nov 17, 2024 4:32 PM

Author:Philip Pullman,Peter Bailey

Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . .

It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow.

Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it.

Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . . .

Reviews

A thrilling masterwork on stories that become real

—— Amanda Craig , The Times

It has the feel of a classic fairy tale. It's the most elegantly constructed, chilling story

—— Jacqueline Wilson

Exciting, scary, romantic and deliciously readable

—— Guardian

Nadia Shireen's Billy and the Beast celebrates the experience of those often left out of picture books, with its brave brown heroine and the outrageous array of props she stores in her huge cloud of hair. Lively, energetic, full of well-timed humour (and a sidekick called Fatcat), it's a great story for everyone, especially those not used to seeing themselves centre stage.

—— The Guardian

These are the most brilliant, beautiful and silly picture-books out there at the moment. Little doorways of joy.

—— Caitlin Moran

A gripping piece of fantasy

—— Parabatai Reviews

Bloody, fast paced and adventurous

—— She Loves to Read

It snares your attention, and keeps it

—— Faerie on the Shelf

Sally Green has fully captured me with this new series

—— This Booky Place

A magical adventure that practically explodes off the page

—— Teach Primary

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