Mortal Engines: Thunder City Award-winning author by Philip Reeve (author) and Ian McQue (illustrator) (UK edition)

“My favourite contemporary children’s author is Philip Reeve” – Charlie Higson
Like all Reeve’s books, this is thrilling, witty and full of heart" – The I
An epic, thrilling, action-packed city-eat-city adventure starring brave fighter Tamzin Pook, who must travel from the spectator sport combat arena in Margate to the Thunder City, where a chilling, ruthless villain has seized power. She will face Revenants – animal/machine hybrids with ferocious appetites – dangerous mercenaries and must learn to trust a group of oddballs whose eccentricities mask their huge hearts and steadfast courage.

The Mortal Engines series has sold over half a million copies in the UK alone via Nielsen Bookscan. Its epic appeal crosses all age ranges

Reeve’s novels have won the Guardian Children’s Award, Blue Peter Award, Smarties Gold Prize and the Carnegie Medal.

Mortal Engines is now a feature film produced by Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson

Product Details

Catalogue number

2583 in ROW Primary Autumn 2025

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780702335471

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

September 26th, 2024

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.8; Middle years; 15.0 points

Other details

400 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Philip Reeve

Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for years while also producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.

Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons and jokes for around forty books, including the best-selling Scholastic series Horrible Histories, as well as Murderous Maths and Dead Famous.

He’s been writing stories since he was five, but Mortal Engines was the first to be published. Mortal Engines defies easy categorisation. It is a gripping adventure story set in an inspired fantasy world, where moving cities trawl the globe. A magical and unique read, it immediately caught the attention of readers and reviewers and won several major awards. Three more Hungry Cities novels followed, and Philip’s latest project are the Fever Crumb books, prequels set centuries before the events of Mortal Engines.

Philip has also written Buster Bayliss, a series for younger readers, and stand alone novels including Here Lies Arthur, which won the Carnegie Medal.

Philip lives in Devon with his wife and son and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading.