Bøger af Katherine Rundell

Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell..._______________Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book AwardShortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie MedalFrom the winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize_______________'I enjoyed it tremendously ... The next time I go to Paris I will be looking up at the rooftops' - Jacqueline Wilson'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' - Philip Pullman'Read everything she writes' - Daily Mail_______________Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived.When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands, starting with the only clue she has - the address of a cello-maker in Paris. On the run from the authorities, Sophie finds Matteo and his network of rooftoppers - urchins who walk tightropes and live in the sky. In a race across the rooftops of Paris, will they be able to find her mother before it's too late?Hopeful, inspiring and thrilling in equal measure, this is a classic adventure story about pursuing your dreams and never ignoring a possible.

Super-Infinite is a captivating book by the renowned author Katherine Rundell. Published by Faber And Faber Ltd. in 2023, this book is a must-read for all book enthusiasts. The genre of the book is a well-guarded secret, adding to the intrigue and excitement of the readers. Katherine Rundell, with her unique storytelling ability, takes you on a journey that is both intriguing and enlightening. The story unfolds in a way that keeps you hooked till the very end. This book is a testament to Rundell's exceptional writing skills and her ability to create a world that is both real and imaginary at the same time. Super-Infinite is not just a book, it's an experience that stays with you long after you've turned the last page. Published by Faber And Faber Ltd., a name synonymous with quality literature, this book is sure to be a valuable addition to your collection. Don't miss out on this literary masterpiece.

'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo'Rundell's first foray into fantasy is both a deft, rich homage to the greats of children's literature and an absorbing, profoundly poignant quest story for those aged 9+ - quite possibly her best yet' - The Guardian'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight, and a world of richly imagined wonder' - Cressida CowellTHE TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThere's a place where all the wildest stories began . From Katherine Rundell, winner of the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize comes the first novel in a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark MaterialsChristopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil - before it's too late. 'A marvellous, imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle - a book to race through in a day and keep for a lifetime' - Jacqueline Wilson'The world of this new book is so intriguing and so well put together that I couldn't resist it. Readers who already know her books will seize this with delight, and new readers will love it and demand all her others at once' - Philip Pullman'Katherine Rundell is a phenomenon.' - Neil Gaiman'A masterpiece to rival Tolkien and Pullman' - The Daily Telegraph'Fantastically exuberant, wildly imaginative, impossibly brilliant. Rundell's best, which is something to be marvelled at' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave'Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as enchanting, as perilous, as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce'Rundell's book packs a punch with imagination and creativity in its purest form. She has created a story with potential to be adored by fantasy lovers for years to come' - The Independent'With a delightful cast of characters, breathless adventure, and an abundance of myth and magic, Impossible Creatures offers the very best of fantasy' - Aisha Bushby'A fierce, fantastic, wild-hearted adventure that roars and bristles with imagination. I devoured it like a hungry dragon' - Sam Sedgman'A rare and remarkable feat of glittering imagination from a truly masterful storyteller' - Catherine Doyle'The action is gripping. Every sentence sparkles. You can feel the flutter of griffin feathers and the menace of strange poisonous shrews. Magnificent' - The Times'Surely the next classic' - The I'My Book of the Year' - Lauren St. John

'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo'Rundell's first foray into fantasy is both a deft, rich homage to the greats of children's literature and an absorbing, profoundly poignant quest story for those aged 9+ - quite possibly her best yet' - The Guardian'A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight, and a world of richly imagined wonder' - Cressida CowellTHE TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE INDEPENDENT CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThere's a place where all the wildest stories began . From Katherine Rundell, winner of the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize comes the first novel in a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark MaterialsChristopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil - before it's too late. 'A marvellous, imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle - a book to race through in a day and keep for a lifetime' - Jacqueline Wilson'The world of this new book is so intriguing and so well put together that I couldn't resist it. Readers who already know her books will seize this with delight, and new readers will love it and demand all her others at once' - Philip Pullman'Katherine Rundell is a phenomenon.' - Neil Gaiman'A masterpiece to rival Tolkien and Pullman' - The Daily Telegraph'Fantastically exuberant, wildly imaginative, impossibly brilliant. Rundell's best, which is something to be marvelled at' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave'Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as enchanting, as perilous, as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce'Rundell's book packs a punch with imagination and creativity in its purest form. She has created a story with potential to be adored by fantasy lovers for years to come' - The Independent'With a delightful cast of characters, breathless adventure, and an abundance of myth and magic, Impossible Creatures offers the very best of fantasy' - Aisha Bushby'A fierce, fantastic, wild-hearted adventure that roars and bristles with imagination. I devoured it like a hungry dragon' - Sam Sedgman'A rare and remarkable feat of glittering imagination from a truly masterful storyteller' - Catherine Doyle'The action is gripping. Every sentence sparkles. You can feel the flutter of griffin feathers and the menace of strange poisonous shrews. Magnificent' - The Times'Surely the next classic' - The I'My Book of the Year' - Lauren St. John

Stor episk fantasy til hele familien fra en af tidens allerstørste børnebogsforfattereHan havde en ganske fin uge, indtil noget prøvede at æde ham. Enhjørninger. Kraken. Sfinkser. Christopher kender kun disse væsener fra børnebøger og vild fantasi – indtil den dag, han redder en grif fra at drukne i hans bedstefars sø i det skotske højland. Da han bringer den tilbage til huset, finder han ud af familiens ældgamle hemmelighed: På hans bedstefars grund findes en port mellem vores verden og Archipelagoen – et sted fyldt med fabeldyr, som ikke længere har plads i vores verden.Men der er mystiske forandringer på vej. Magien, der har beskyttet Archipelagoen i tusinder af år, er blevet svækket. Og noget andet er på vej til at rejse sig.Første bind i en storslået, episk fantasyfortælling af den blændende engelske forfatter Katherine Rundell, som især er kendt for sine mindre, litterære mesterværker. Impossible Creatures er hendes længe ventede bredere fortælling, der uden tvivl vil skaffe hende endnu flere trofaste læsere.

'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo 'Rundell's first foray into fantasy is both a deft, rich homage to the greats of children's literature and an absorbing, profoundly poignant quest story for those aged 9+ - quite possibly her best yet' - The Guardian

Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can’t prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this “gripping, magical, and heartwarming tale of resilience, friendship, and hope” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Wilhelmina Silver’s world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey, and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. Lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of vicious schoolgirls. Where can a girl run to in London? And will she have the courage to survive? From the author of Rooftoppers, which Booklist called “a glorious adventure,” comes an utterly beautiful story that’s “a treasure of a book” (VOYA).

Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch AwardA Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary HubFrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love.In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times-unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.

“The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in ‘extraordinary things’ triumph in this whimsical and magical tale” (Publishers Weekly) about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris.Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive—but “almost impossible” means “still possible.” And you should never ignore a possible. So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian, threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, they takes matters into their own hands and flee to Paris to look for Sophie’s mother, starting with the only clue they have—the address of the cello maker. Evading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers—urchins who live in the hidden spaces above the city. Together they scour the city in a search for Sophie’s mother—but can they find her before Sophie is caught and sent back to London? Or, more importantly, before she loses hope? Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials series, calls Rooftoppers “the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination.”

Læsende børn bliver tænkende voksne. Alene derfor burde børnelitteratur i udgangspunktet være den vigtigste litteratur, vi har. Men er der stadig noget at hente i børnelitteraturen, når man er nået skelsår og alder (og er blevet så vis, at man næsten kan undvære hovedet)? Også i dén grad, lyder det passionerede svar fra den britiske forfatter Katherine Rundell. Læs hendes veloplagte og -argumenterede essay om at elske bøger, om bibliotekers værdi og om som voksen at få genfornyet troen på, at ting kan være anderledes. Og lad os nu én gang for alle lægge udsagnet "det er bare børnebøger" i graven!Med dansk forord af Jens Raahauge, der bl.a. får læseren til at huske, hvad ens egen kærlighed til bøger spirede frem af. P.S. Til alle voksne, der beklager, at de ikke har tid læse ret meget: Læs først og fremmest dette korte essay. Derved får du lyst til at opsige dine streamingsabonnementer og således få frigjort en masse tid ... God læselyst :)

Læsende børn bliver tænkende voksne. Alene derfor burde børnelitteratur i udgangspunktet være den vigtigste litteratur, vi har. Men er der stadig noget at hente i børnelitteraturen, når man er nået skelsår og alder (og er blevet så vis, at man næsten kan undvære hovedet)? Også i dén grad, lyder det passionerede svar fra den britiske forfatter Katherine Rundell. Læs hendes veloplagte og -argumenterede essay om at elske bøger, om bibliotekers værdi og om som voksen at få genfornyet troen på, at ting kan være anderledes. Og lad os nu én gang for alle lægge udsagnet "det er bare børnebøger" i graven!Med dansk forord af Jens Raahauge, der bl.a. får læseren til at huske, hvad ens egen kærlighed til bøger spirede frem af. P.S. Til alle voksne, der beklager, at de ikke har tid læse ret meget: Læs først og fremmest dette korte essay. Derved får du lyst til at opsige dine streamingsabonnementer og således få frigjort en masse tid ... God læselyst :)

An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.'Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power whose novels will be read, cherished and reread long after most so-called "serious" novels are forgotten' - ObserverKatherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for adult readers.