My Swordhand is Singing

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It isn't long before Peter finds himself opening up to a new world where Vampire Slayers exist and dead villagers come back to life. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.

Sedgwick takes old legends, myths and period of times and twists them into a dark interesting, horror story. He has judged numerous books awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Costa Book Awards.But his warnings to the inhabitants of the castle go unheeded: Lord Valevine Otherhand is too busy trying to invent the. They must uncover the mystery of what has happened both to Sorrel's father, plagued by a strange madness that prevents him from sleeping, and to Marko's father, a doctor, w.

Of his story, Sedgwick says, "This was one of those stories that I thought might be a novel originally but actually was much better suited to the tight form of the short story.He has published novels such as Floodland (winner of the Branford Boase Award in 2001) and The Dark Horse (shortlisted for The Guardian Children's Book Award 2002). As the book progresses Peter learns more about the undead and about the real reason he and his father have moved around a lot.

Many of your novels are inspired by history and by myth and legend - have these areas always been a fascination of yours since childhood and if so how did this passion come about?

The village then sees two deaths, which are blamed on wolves even though it appears unlikely to say the least. Set in a deep-forest, Germanic world, this slim volume is lean on historical detail, but the clarity of its prose, and the arrow-straight drive of the storyline, gives the book a classic charm.