Inkheart #1: Inkheart (2020 reissue) Award-winning author by Cornelia Funke (author)

A gorgeous edition of the first book in Cornelia Funke’s internationally celebrated trilogy – magical, thrilling and mesmerising. Pre-order the latest installment in the Inkheart series: The Colour of Revenge – coming in October 2024.

‘I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that conveys so well the joys, terrors and pitfalls of reading.’ Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl’s Moving Castle

‘One of the outstanding children’s novels of the year.’ The Times

‘A breathtakingly fast-moving tale.’ The Independent

Meggie loves stories, but her father, Mo, hasn’t read to her since her mother disappeared.

When a stranger knocks at their door, Mo is forced to reveal an extraordinary secret – when he reads aloud, words come alive, and dangerous characters step out of the pages.

Suddenly Meggie is living the kind of adventure she has only read about in books, but this one will change her life for ever …

A thrilling and magical adventure about stories and the imagination they inspire.

Cornelia Funke is the critically-acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of Dragon Rider and The Thief Lord.

Also a major feature film from the makers of The Lord of the Rings, starring Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany and Brendan Fraser!

The adventure continues in Inkspell and Inkdeath.

Pre-order the spectacular tale that returns to the world of Inkheart and fall in love with the series all over again. The Colour of Revenge, coming October 2024! 978-1-913696-18-4.

Product Details

Series

Inkheart (book 1)

ISBN

9781912626847

Publisher

Chicken House Ltd

Date published

April 2nd, 2020

Other details

576 pages

Condition

New

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eur prices

Offer price: €89.40

RRP: €106.47

gbp prices

Offer price: £68.77

RRP: £81.90

Part of this Series

Inkheart

Author/Illustrator

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke is the hugely successful author of the Inkheart Trilogy, The Thief Lord and a whole host of other popular children’s novels and picture books. She was born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten. After finishing her studies, Cornelia worked for three years as a social worker. For a while she illustrated books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the tales that had appealed to the children she had worked with.

During the late 1980s and the 1990s, she established herself in Germany with two children’s series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Her international break-through came with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider (1996), which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 weeks, and was continued with The Thief Lord (2000, translated into English in 2002), which immediately climbed to the #2 position of the New York Times bestseller list, stayed there for 19 weeks and sold 1.5 million copies.

Her follow-up novel was Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award. Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Cornelia her second BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award (2006). The trilogy concluded with Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, England in Spring 2008, USA Autumn 2008). Inkheart the movie was also released in 2008 and starred Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren and Paul Bettany.

Cornelia’s brand new novel Reckless is released worldwide on September 14th 2010.