Impossible Creatures

Katya Balen Katherine Rundell

From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and heart-warming story about sisterhood, found family and accepting love in the most unusual places

Twin sisters Fen and Rey were found amongst foxes at the very edge of the wildlands. Different and the same. Separate and connected. They always have each other, even if they don’t have a mother, or beginning.

But they do want answers, about how their story began. So when a fox appears late one night at the house, Fen and Rey know: it’s here to lead them to their truth.

The wildlands, though, are wild and brutal, and this journey will be harder than Fen or Rey ever imagined…

Katya Balen is an award-winning author of books for children. Her second book, October, October, won the Yoto Carnegie Medal. She lives in London with her partner and their dogs.

September 2023

Hardback 9781526640444 • £12.99 eBook 9781526640413 • £6.39

272 pages

Territory: World English Sales Rights: World English Bloomsbury Children’s Books

Adam Destroys the Internet

Adam B

‘I started reading this with my ten-year-old son … until he decided the book was so good, he had to carry on without me’ Val, NetGalley reviewer on Adam Wins The Internet

The second PHENOMENALLY FUNNY out-of-this-world adventure from YouTube sensation and TV presenter Adam B is perfect for fans of David Baddiel and Ben Miller!

Thirteen-year-old Adam has made a lot of mistakes in his life, but this is his BIGGEST. After a fight with his little brother Callum, the magical computer algorithm Popularis Incrementum explodes, transporting them to a parallel dimension where Adam and Callum were never born and the internet doesn’t exist.

Will the brothers survive in the strange Altiverse where everything’s DIFFERENT? Can they stop an EVIL VILLAIN from sabotaging their dad’s world-changing technology when their dad doesn’t even know who they are? And IS THERE A WAY BACK HOME?

Adam B is a hugely popular YouTuber, with his videos boasting over half a billion views overall, and a live television host. Adam Wins the Internet was a #1 HB Children's Fiction Debut bestseller.

October 2023

Hardback 9781526655585 • £12.99 eBook 9781526655554 • £9.09

304 pages

Territory: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Sales Rights: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Bloomsbury Children’s Books

There’s a place where all the wildest stories began … Katherine Rundell’s highly anticipated novel is the first in a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark Materials

It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.

Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures tearing down a hill. Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christopher’s world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. She is from the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all creatures we tell of in myth live protected from the nonmagical world for centuries; now, terrifyingly, that protection is wearing thin. Christopher and Mal must find a way to fix it.

Katherine Rundell is the bestselling author of six novels for children. She has won the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and more.

September 2023

Hardback 9781408897416 • £14.99 eBook 9781408897423 • £10.49

Territory: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Sales Rights: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

304 pages Bloomsbury Children’s Books