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Fintan's Tower

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First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Page block and page edges are tanned, otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW

120 pages, Hardcover

First published October 3, 1991

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Catherine Fisher

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Catherine Fisher was born in Newport, Wales. She graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in English and a fascination for myth and history. She has worked in education and archaeology and as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Glamorgan. She is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy.

Catherine is an acclaimed poet and novelist, regularly lecturing and giving readings to groups of all ages. She leads sessions for teachers and librarians and is an experienced broadcaster and adjudicator. She lives in Newport, Gwent.

Catherine has won many awards and much critical acclaim for her work. Her poetry has appeared in leading periodicals and anthologies and her volume Immrama won the WAC Young Writers' Prize. She won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 1990.

Her first novel, The Conjuror's Game, was shortlisted for the Smarties Books prize and The Snow-Walker's Son for the W.H.Smith Award. Equally acclaimed is her quartet The Book of the Crow, a classic of fantasy fiction.

The Oracle, the first volume in the Oracle trilogy, blends Egyptian and Greek elements of magic and adventure and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Books prize. The trilogy was an international bestseller and has appeared in over twenty languages. The Candleman won the Welsh Books Council's Tir Na n'Og Prize and Catherine was also shortlisted for the remarkable Corbenic, a modern re-inventing of the Grail legend.

Her futuristic novel Incarceron was published to widespread praise in 2007, winning the Mythopoeic Society of America's Children's Fiction Award and selected by The Times as its Children's Book of the Year. The sequel, Sapphique, was published in September 2008.

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35 reviews9 followers
December 31, 2022
Wij hebben dit boek nog steeds, of wat ervan overbleef in ieder geval. De kaft is er half afgescheurd en op iedere pagina vind je wel een vlek. Mijn zussen en ik hebben dit boek opnieuw en opnieuw gelezen. Wat een magisch verhaal, bijzondere wereld.

Dus nu, zo een 14 jaar later, moet ik plots denken aan dit geniaal boek en uiteraard een review achterlaten. Het ligt nu veilig bij mijn nichtje, ook een boekenwurm.
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March 28, 2024
"Jamie and his sister Jen are drawn into a world of sorcery on a quest to rescue the prisoner from Fintan's Tower. The author also wrote "The Conjuror's Game", which was shortlisted for the Smarties Award." (WorldCat)
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1,356 reviews8 followers
February 19, 2019
Jamie ziet een aantal mannen vragen na de naam in het boek in de bibliotheek en ze daarna verdwijnen achter een groene deur. hij besluit er ook naar te vragen en ziet dan dat zijn naam in het boek staat. hij neemt het boek mee en dan word door een van de mannen gevraagd met hem mee te gaan en iemand uit een toren te bevrijden. maar is die persoon wel te vertrouwen en wie is degene die hem steeds in de gaten houdt? samen met zijn zus gaat hij het avontuur aan om de man te bevrijden. een dun boekje wat spannend was maar ook wel erg voorspelbaar maar het is ook een kinderboek. had hem in een keer uitgelezen.
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65 reviews1 follower
November 15, 2019
Reread after more than a decade. Not as enjoyable as I remember, but a fun and quick read.
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