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The first instalment in the MORTAL ENGINES quartet, introducing young
apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous Hester Shaw, flung
from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping adventures
in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground.

"My favourite contemporary children´s author is Philip Reeve" - Charlie
Higson

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MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve´s brilliantly-imagined creation,
the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for
survival in a post-apocalyptic future.The first instalment introduces
young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous Hester Shaw,
flung from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping
adventures in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground.

"No 11-to-16-year-old should miss the superbly imagined debut novel
from Philip Reeve" - The Times

"This big, brave, brilliant book combines a thrilling adventure story
with endless moral conundrums" - Guardian

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