Canongate is to publish a "magical" children's series by Scarlett Thomas, author of the adult novel The End of Mr Y (Canongate).
Francis Bickmore, Canongate publishing director, acquired world rights to three books in The Worldquake Sequence from David Miller at Rogers Coleridge and White.
Dragon's Green, the first in the series, aimed primarily at 9-12 year-olds, will be published in April 2017. It follows Effie, a pupil at the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled and Strange. When Effie's grandfather becomes ill, she discovers she is set to inherit the family library. Which would be fine if the books were regular books . . . But before she knows it, the library opens up a world of puzzles, spells and curses and Effie's life is at risk from dark forces, intent on using the books and the power they contain.
