Katherine Roberts

The Cleopatra Curse (Seven Fabulous Wonders, #7) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Chariot racing is dangerous enough without a demon to worry about.

Raised as a slave in Queen Cleopatra's Egypt, lighthouse boy Zeuxis is desperate to win his freedom by driving a chariot to victory in the Hippodrome. But nobody will let him race, until the Romans turn up with their team of white horses to challenge the queen's champion. Much to his delight, they hire Zeuxis to drive for them. But Caesar has other plans for race day, and the lighthouse boy is not meant to win…

"The Cleopatra Curse" is one of the Seven Fabulous Wonders series, originally published by HarperCollins and translated into 11 languages worldwide. A mixture of magic, mystery and adventure set against carefully researched historical backgrounds, these books are full length novels and can be enjoyed in any order.

The complete seven book collection is also available as the Seven Fabulous Wonders omnibus edition.

Katherine Roberts won the Branford Boase Award for her first novel "Song Quest". Find out more at www.katherineroberts.co.uk.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Katherine Roberts
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497782129
• Artikelnr.: 42210001

Autorenporträt

Katherine Roberts grew up in the southwest of England, where her first fantasy stories were told to her little brother at bedtime. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Bath, after which she worked for the General Electric Company, and later for an American company developing business models for petrol stations. When redundancy struck in 1989, she fulfilled her childhood dream of working with horses in a National Hunt racing yard, writing in her spare time.

After several years of writing short fantasy and horror stories for genre magazines, her first book Song Quest won the 2000 Branford Boase Award for best debut novel for young readers, kick-starting her career as an author. Her books have been published by HarperCollins, Chicken House and Scholastic US, and translated into 12 languages worldwide - one of them even hit the bestseller list in Taiwan. Her latest series for young readers, The Pendragon Legacy about King Arthur's daughter, is published in the UK by Templar Books.

Away from her computer, Katherine enjoys folk music, cycling, skiing, and horse riding holidays. She has flown a glider solo and scared herself silly doing aerobatics in a small plane. All of these experiences eventually find their way into her books - though sometimes the horse becomes a unicorn, and the plane becomes a dragon!