Farperoo was one of BBC Radio Four's 'Reads of the Year' in 2005
A bit about the author...
Mark Lamb lives in an ancient limestone quarry with his lovely wife Ennyd. They are occasionally visited by Roggadog and Safframungous, a pair of hairy creatures who claim to be Old English Sheepdogs. Mark has two interesting tattoos, one of which reads 'Nox' and the other 'Lux'. There is a third though, which nobody has ever seen. He is a practising Ritual Magician and has done a great deal of research in the field of Angelic Magic. He also knows a bit about physics and is a whizz at something called thermionic emission. He can also fly, and was once the personal bodyguard of a Middle-eastern sultan. He's obsessed with stories of creation and the many and varied theories surrounding the ancient elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Nowadays he spends his time sliding around the house in sheepskin slippers, sipping Martinis and thinking about angels. He is fixated with the idea of worlds beyond worlds, and, like his heroine, Lucy Blake, he tells quite a lot of lies. He likes to sprinkle the truth in there somewhere though, just to confuse people.
Most of all, he wants readers of all ages to enjoy the unfolding story of The Dark Inventions
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Farperoo Volume 1 (SIGNED)
Publisher: Private Printing
"A world of dark angels, giant insects and truly awful advertising campaigns...
On the day the five-fold quest for heaven began, the small town of Grimston-on-Sea was squatting beneath a heavy, doom-laden sky...
Dare to enter a fabulous tale of angelic magic, dark ritual and strange, inedible food. The story features the mysterious Lucy Blake, an 'ordinary' young girl with a talent for extraordinary lies that have a habit of coming true. Before her fourteenth birthday comes around she’s going to steal a priceless work of art, get involved in a spectacularly explosive firework display and find herself pitched into mortal combat with the winged hordes of heaven. Lucy’s friend Fenny has been kidnapped by an evil angel, but the mistress-of-lies has problems of her own. Her wafer-thin stepmother wants Lucy's boarding-house for herself, and she’s prepared to have the lying step-daughter committed to an insane asylum in order to get it. The despicable Doctor Veraciter is only too willing to help with the plan - because he’s noticed something rather interesting about Lucy’s stories. Bentley Priory, the penniless private detective, thinks it might be something to do with Lucy’s real mother, who vanished from a locked room years ago and has never been seen since. Pursued by the angel Raziel, Lucy is forced to flee into a dark and sinister world where even handbags aren't quite what they seem. Surrounded by tales of lost dragons and mythical cities, she and her companions explore a world of shew stones, talking maps, and truth cabinets. This is a world of mad inventors, ritual magicians and corrupt emperors - a world completely dominated by the equally mysterious Sisters of Perpetual Mercy. Who are they, and why are they so interested in Lucy that they're willing to destroy an entire world in order to get their hands on her?
They want her, because they know what's coming soon...
Farperoo Volume 2 (SIGNED & DATED)
Format: UK 1/1 Hardback
Publisher: Mark Lamb
This is the second volume of the fantastic Farperoo (Farperoo is Book 1 of the Dark Inventions series).
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