The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell hardback - special SIGNED edition

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Published September 11th 2025

Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second
book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.
Description
The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is
justice to be done.
When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on
his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the
Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not
know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a
dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a
new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...
Author Biography
Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have
won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa
Children’s Book Award, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones
Book of the Year 2023, and in 2024 Katherine was named the British Book Awards
Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the
Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine’s
College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults
include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes
climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.