ALEX, THE DOG & THE UNOPENABLE DOOR

 

Ages 9-12

Published by Faber&Faber, August 2013

Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2013.

Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2014.

Included in The Sunday Times "100 Modern Children's Classics" List.

 

 

Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem.

His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the history of the Cusp, has escaped from hospital again, yelling 'squiggles'.

Make that two problems.

Now the evil Davidus Kyte and all his henchmen are after Alex, convinced he alone knows the meaning of the word 'squiggles'.

OK, make that three -

Alex Jennings is a boy with a lot of problems. 

But with the help of a talking dog 

and a girl with unfeasibly sharp teeth, 

he just might have what it takes to

cross the Forbidden Lands, escape the evil Davidus Kyte, and find out what lies beyond the Cusp . . .

 

 

"Children's fiction has a remarkable new comic voice." 

Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times

 

"Underneath this barking mad romp there's a moving message

about love, loss, fear, and identity. A highly original debut novel." 

Daily Mail