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The Daemon Parallel

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Junior Fiction
BIC Subjects: Fantasy & magical realism
Publisher: Floris Books
Imprint: Kelpies
Publication Date: 22/03/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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It was over coffee and biscuits that Grandma Ives offered to return Cameron's father from the dead...Cameron never came to visit his grandma when his dad was alive -- and he's just found out the reason why. Sent to stay with her after his father's death, Grandma Ives soon reveals their family's extraordinary abilities, and introduces him to the dark side of Edinburgh he never knew existed -- the Daemon Parallel. Cameron is sent on dangerous missions in Edinburgh's daemon underworld to find the ingredients for an ancient spell that will bring his dad back to life. Cameron befriends a werewolf, bargains with a giant bat-like beast, and struggles to escape the clutches of a powerful spider daemon. But will he survive long enough to finish the resurrection spell? And who can he trust in a world where nothing is what it seems? Ages 9+.

'Edinburgh is conjured brilliantly and beautifully here, and we can really believe in it as a place suffused by magic. Whenever Cameron steps sideways into the Parallel, the world around him alters and shifts and familiar places are strangely transformed. I loved the scenes in the old department store on Princess Street - which becomes a kind of forest cathedral, where antlered beings tend to a sleeping Winter God ... I adored this novel. I really, really want it to be the first in a sequence. I want it to be a boxed set of novels that are just about falling apart with repeated rereadings. That's how much i enjoyed this first one.' --Paul Margs, March 2012

Title: The Daemon Parallel
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Contributors: By (author) Roy Gill

ISBN 13: 9780863158698
ISBN 10: 0863158692

Publisher: Floris Books
Imprint: Kelpies
Publication Date: 22/03/2012
Place of Publication: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Fantasy & magical realism
NBS Classification: Children's Fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Thickness: 25mm
Weight: 306g