MAY
2007 - SHADOW FOREST MATT HAIG
Published 3rd May 2006
£9.99 Hardback the Bodley Head
For further information please contact Laura
Harris
Tel: 020 8231 6648 Email: lharris@randomhouse.co.uk
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About
the Authors
Professor Horatio Tanglewood is an evil
Englishman who lives in a wooden palace
in the middle of Shadow Forest, which
he rules under the name of the Changemaker.
He wrote a book called The Creatures
of Shadow Forest and keeps the pickled
heads of his enemies in jars. His favourite
music in the world is the sound of a
child screaming. He is currently working
on his autobiography.
The author goes by the rather boring
name of ‘Matt Haig’, although
he was in fact christened Zerebubul
Osrich Winterbottom the Third. He rudely
interrupts the story on two occasions,
just when you’re getting into
it. He once bumped into Professor Horatio
Tanglewood in his local library. The
professor asked to borrow his pen but
never gave it back. Matt lives in the
North of England and is the author of
two books for grownups, The Last Family
in England and The Dead Father’s
Club.
HOW TO STAY ALIVE IN SHADOW
FOREST:
1. Don't lose your shadow. Keep it with
you at all times, making sure it is
firmly attached to your feet.
2. Never accept meals from strangers.
Especially if the stranger is a Truth
Pixie.
3. Try not to fall down a Caloosh trap.
If you do, you'll be caught by the cruellest
creatures in the forest.
4. Befriend a troll.
5. Never fall asleep on a Slemp's belly.
6. If you see the Shadow Witch start
running. Unless you want to be turned
into a rabbit.
7. Wear a Hek-Bracelet. It will protect
you from harm.
8. Be careful after dark, as that is
when the huldre-folk are about.
9. Read Professor Tanglewood's book,
The Creatures of Shadow Forest.
10. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER go anywhere
near the Changemaker. Unless you want
your head to end up pickled in a jar.
Samuel Blink is the hero of this story,
but he doesn't know it yet. Right now,
he and his sister Martha are in the
back of his parent’s car. He has
no idea a giant log is about to fall
from the sky and change his life forever.
He doesn't know that he and Martha will
be forced to move to Norway and eat
their Aunt Eda's smelly brown cheese.
He hasn't the slightest clue Martha
will disappear into Shadow Forest. A
forest full of one-eyed trolls, the
sinister huldre-folk, deadly Truth Pixies
and a witch who steals shadows. A forest
ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest
so dangerous that people who enter never
return.
No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of
this. So don't tell him. It might ruin
the book . . .
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