Paperback
9780241365854
September 3, 2018
Penguin and David Fickling Books
Trade Paperback
9780857561084
October 19, 2017
David Fickling Books
448 pages
Hardback
9780385604413
October 19, 2017
David Fickling Books
448 pages
Audio CD
9781846577703
October 20, 2017
RHCP Audio
EBook
9781409025474
October 19, 2017
RHCP Digital
448 pages
Malcolm Polstead, the eleven-year-old at the centre of the story, sees a great deal of the secret life of Oxford from the perspective of the rivers and the canal in his canoe La Belle Sauvage. Here he witnesses something he'd never expected to see, and discovers something that will change his life.
– Philip Pullman
Malcolm let the canoe drift to a halt and then silently slipped in among the stiff stems and watched as a great crested grebe scrambled up on to the towpath, waddled ungracefully across, and then dropped down into the little backwater on the other side. Keeping as quiet as he could and moving very slowly, Malcolm wedged the canoe even deeper into the reeds, and watched the bird shake its head and paddle across the water to join its mate.
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