You don't have to have been coming into the Library for long to find out that Philip Reeve is one of my favourite authors. In particular I love his Mortal Engines series. If you too have read the books from Mortal Engines to A Darkling Plain, why not read Fever Crumb the prequel to Mortal Engines?
Fever Crumb is set a generation before Mortal Engines and explains the origins of the traction cities and of the character the stalker Shrike. It is an exciting adventure which is also peppered with humour - look out for the cult that worships "Hari Potter"!!
Fever Crumb can be read without having read any of the other books. The series is of a genre known as "steampunk" this refers to books set in an age when steam power was still widely used, often the Victorian era, but features futuristic inventions and ideas.
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