Alan Bradley author of The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag author talks about his 11-year-old protagonist and why we should pay more attention to our youth.
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag author talks about his 11-year-old protagonist and why we should pay more attention to our youth.
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Hardcover | 368 pages | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
Doubleday Canada | 978-0-385-66584-1
March 9, 2010 | $29.95
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder — but then, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die. When the master puppeteer’s van breaks down in the village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is front and centre to help Rupert and his charming assistant, Nialla, put together a performance in the local church to help pay the repair bill. But even as the newcomers set up camp and set the stage for Jack and the Beanstalk, there are signs that something just isn’t right.
Alan Bradley author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Fiction
Anchor Canada | 978-0-385-66583-4
November 10, 2009 | $19.95
The summer of 1950 hasn’t offered up anything out of the ordinary for eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce: bicycle explorations around the village, keeping tabs on her neighbours, relentless battles with her older sisters, Ophelia and Daphne, and brewing up poisonous concoctions while plotting revenge in their home’s abandoned Victorian chemistry lab, which Flavia has claimed for her own.
But then a series of mysterious events gets Flavia’s attention: A dead bird is found on the doormat, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak.
