Charlie Fletcher

A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living. Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakes an ancient power. This power has been dormant for centuries but the results are instant and terrifying: A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George. He runs for his life but it seems that no one can see what he’s running from. No one, except Edie, who is also trapped in this strange world. And this is just the beginning as the statues of London awake… This is a story of statues coming to life; of a struggle between those with souls and those without; of how one boy who has been emotionally abandoned manages to find hope.

Stoneheart Trilogy, The: Stoneheart - Book One

"The end always happens faster than you think." Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall.

The Oversight

The city of London is in the middle of one of its most destructive wars in history. And yet most of its inhabitants don't even know it. The battle between the statues and gargoyles of London rages on. The stakes are high, with the spits engaged in a struggle against the evil taints that will determine the fate of their very souls. Twelve year old George Chapman and his friend Edie are caught in the middle. A glint with the ability to "see" the past, Edie has become a crucial asset in the ongoing war. The Gunner, a statue of a World War I soldier, continues do his part to help them in their quest. But George knows that he is the one who must play the biggest role in helping to bring an end to the war. With the Walker intent on forcing his evil designs on London and the world, George realizes that his destiny is inextricably tied to the Walker's destruction. In the end, the most important soul he manages to save might just be his own. Filled with intriguing suspense, invigorating action sequences, and well developed characters, Silvertongue is a thrilling conclusion to the international blockbuster Stoneheart trilogy.

The Stoneheart Trilogy, Book Three: Silvertongue

The next instalment in George's exciting and original adventure. Readers will find that London never looks the same again!

Ironhand

The city of London is in the middle of one of its most destructive wars in history. And yet most of its inhabitants don't even know it.The battle between the statues and gargoyles of London rages on. The stakes are high, with the spits engaged in a struggle against the evil taints that will determine the fate of their very souls.Twelve year old George Chapman and his friend Edie are caught in the middle. A glint with the ability to "see" the past, Edie has become a crucial asset in the ongoing war. The Gunner, a statue of a World War I soldier, continues do his part to help them in their quest. But George knows that he is the one who must play the biggest role in helping to bring an end to the war. With the Walker intent on forcing his evil designs on London and the world, George realizes that his destiny is inextricably tied to the Walker's destruction. In the end, the most important soul he manages to save might just be his own.Filled with intriguing suspense, invigorating action sequences, and well developed characters, Silvertongue is a thrilling conclusion to the international blockbuster Stoneheart trilogy.

Silvertongue

João Seixas

Quando George quebrou a cabeça da estátua do dragão no Museu de História Natural de Londres estava a anos-luz de poder imaginar que esse acto impensado viria a ter consequências verdadeiramente catastróficas para a sua vida e para a própria cidade. Uma força poderosíssima, adormecida desde tempos imemoriais nas profundezas da capital, aguardava pela oportunidade de voltar à vida, e agora esse momento tinha finalmente chegado. O caos da devastação ameaça instalar-se, e para repor a normalidade George terá de empenhar toda a sua coragem e contar com a preciosa ajuda de Edie e de um soldado da Primeira Guerra Mundial, eles próprios também estátuas. Uma aventura épica de cortar a respiração, que nos dá a conhecer uma outra Londres, absolutamente fascinante, e que promete continuar em futuros volumes.

Stone Heart: O enigma da esfinge

"The end always comes faster than you think." Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. And their numbers are dwindling further still. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she might answer their hopes for a new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall. In his first novel for adults, Charlie Fletcher (The Stoneheart Trilogy) spins a tale of witch-hunters, supra-naturalists, mirror-walkers and magicians. Meet the Oversight, and remember: when they fall, so do we all.

'The Oversight is most dangerous when most reduced. There are many dead and gone who did not remember that.' The Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other. Now at its lowest ebb, with its headquarters destroyed and its last members scattered far and wide, this secret society will battle for survival and face the harshest foe it has ever met: itself. 'Exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised' - M. R. Carey on The Oversight

An Oversight Novel

The Remnant

Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor made a pact that one day, just for the hell of it, they'd take the subway and stay on the A-train until the very end of the line where the last narrow spit of land runs out into the ocean at Far Rockaway. This isn't that day. On the first page Cat is knocked down by a speeding fire truck whilst crossing 55th St and 3rd Ave in Central Manhattan. She wakes up in a world made from all the books her grandfather used to read to her, peopled by some of the most memorable heroes of classic adventure fiction, brought vividly back to life. Cat must earn their friendship and help as she begins an odyssey and epic quest to find the mythic Castle at the World's End. And the name of that distant, mythic, wave-tumbled fastness? It is, of course, the castle of Far Rockaway ... If you enjoy reading good books; swashbuckling adventures with sword fights and pirates - then Far Rockaway is the book for you. J oin Cat as she embarks on the journey of a lifetime ...

Far Rockaway

The start of a thrilling, action-packed trilogy from Charlie Fletcher, set in a world where statues come to life and dragons and heroes battle. Something dark has woken in the British Museum, and it has stopped time, literally freezing the city in its tracks. The people are there, but unmoving, unseeing - like statues. The statues, on the other hand, can move, and are astonished at what they see. In the Great Ormond Street Hospital, Will and Jo are suddenly plunged into this world of statues - and find themselves pursued by murderous dragons. With help from a couple of friendly statues, Will and Jo must escape the evil that stalks them in the streets of London. With beautiful illustrations by Nick Tankard.

Dragon Shield

Me llamo Gris. No he ido nunca a la escuela. Jamás he tenido amigos y en toda mi vida no he conocido suficientes personas como para jugar un partido de fútbol. Mis padres me han contado que antes el mundo estaba lleno de gente, antes de que se vaciara. Pero nunca nos hemos sentido solos en nuestra isla. Nos tenemos los unos a los otros, y tenemos a nuestros perros. Entonces llegó el ladrón. Novela elegida como una de las mejores historias de ciencia ficción de 2019 según Kirkus Reviews. Una historia con el estilo de La carretera pero con un toque esperanzador.

Un chico y su perro en el fin del mundo

Raudkäsi

Hõbekeel

Kivisüda

The next instalment in George's breathtaking adventures. Readers will find that London never looks the same again!

Iron Hand

New allies and new hope leave siblings Will and Jo ready to face the dark force that lurks in the British Museum. It has frozen London, leaving the life force of the city's inhabitants to drain away. But with nearly all the animal statues of London and a nest of dragons against them, will they be able to save their mum - and the world - before time runs out? With beautiful illustrations by Nick Tankard.

Book 3

The City of Beasts

The last members of the secret society known as the Oversight still patrol the border between the natural and supernatural, holding a candle to the darkness. But the society's new members are unproven, its veterans weary and battle-scarred. Their vulnerability brings new enemies to London, and surprising new allies from across the sea. But most surprising of all are revelations about the Oversight's past, secrets that will expose the true peril of the world in which their friends Sharp and Sara are trapped - the riddle of the Black Mirrors, and what lies beyond. And the catastrophic danger that will follow the duo home, if they ever manage to return. The dark waters rise. The candle is guttering. But the light still remains. For now . . .

The Paradox

Londra, metà Ottocento. L’organizzazione segreta Oversight ha il compito sia di proteggere gli esseri umani privi di poteri magici dalle scorribande degli esseri fatati di ogni genere, sia di difendere il mondo magico dalle ingiustizie perpetrate – più o meno involontariamente – dall’umanità che avanza a grandi passi verso la modernizzazione. I membri di Oversight sono tutti dotati di particolari poteri extrasensoriali, ma dopo il Disastro le loro fila sono state decimate a soltanto cinque componenti, il numero minimo indispensabile, costituiscon una Mano. Questi ultimi cinque sopravvissuti hanno la missione di custodire la misteriosa Chiave, il fulcro attorno al quale ruotano gli equilibri tra mondo magico e mondo ‘normale’, oggetto del desiderio per chiunque brami un grande potere... Un fantasy strabiliante, che ha la potenza evocativa di un classico.

Oversight

City Beasts

A city has many lives and layers. London has more than most. Not all the layers are underground, and not all the lives belong to the living. Twelve-year-old George Chapman is about to find this out the hard way. When, in a tiny act of rebellion, George breaks the head from a stone dragon outside the Natural History Museum, he awakes an ancient power. This power has been dormant for centuries but the results are instant and terrifying: A stone Pterodactyl unpeels from the wall and starts chasing George. He runs for his life but it seems that no one can see what he''s running from. No one, except Edie, who is also trapped in this strange world. And this is just the beginning as the statues of London awake... This is a story of statues coming to life; of a struggle between those with souls and those without; of how one boy who has been emotionally abandoned manages to find hope.

Charlie Fletcher

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