Katherine Rundell
16 September 2025, 19:30
A Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely event.
The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.
Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon's lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...
The unmissable sequel to Impossible Creatures, winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year, British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, Foyles Children's Book of the Year and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award.
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