Shadow Thieves
by Peter Burns
AUCK IN STOCK
WGTN IN STOCK
384
30 Sept 2025
Paperback
Farshore
9780008667818
SKANDAR MEETS OLIVER TWIST IN THIS BLOCKBUSTING NEW MIDDLE GRADE ADVENTURE SERIES - PERFECT FOR FANS OF PERCY JACKSON!
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"Top marks" Observer
"Utterly fabulous" ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG
"The real thing" MICHAEL GRANT
"A thrilling read!" JONATHAN STROUD
"A must!" Daily Mail
"Propulsive pacing and action packed plotting" Publishers' Weekly starred review
13-year-old Tom Morgan and his friends live on the streets of an alternate London, shining shoes and picking pockets - until one day Tom's friends are caught and sent to a brutal workhouse.
Frantic and without a way to save them, Tom bumps into the mysterious Corsair, who offers him an opportunity to train at an elite international boarding school for thieves. Seeing a glimmer of hope, Tom lets himself be whisked away to the snowy Alps in a zeppelin. Swept into a thrilling world of danger and intrigue, the more secrets he learns about the Shadow League, the harder it becomes for Tom to leave. But there are dark forces at work and real danger is coming...
Can Tom save his fellow pupils from disaster - and ever be able to get home again to rescue his friends?
Get ready for the stunning debut in what is guaranteed to become every reader's favourite new series! Heart-pounding adventure, thrilling heists, remote boarding schools full of ancient secrets waiting to be discovered and much much more...
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Readers LOVE Shadow Thieves!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"One of my favourite reads of all time"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Reading this book helped me to escape the real world and enter into a world full of imagination"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"I couldn't put the book down"
Think Oliver Twist meets Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and you pretty much have the beginnings of Shadow Thieves. Young Tom is an orphan and petty thief picking pockets to survive in a gritty Victorian London where he and his friends are constantly under the threat of being caught and sent to a brutal workhouse. When he meets the mysterious and charming Corsair, Tom is soon recruited to an exclusive boarding school for thieves (one in a quartet of academies for aspiring criminals scattered around the globe) and soon departs London for the French Alps to begin his tutelage at Beaufort’s School for Deceptive Arts. Including some rather significant reverse outcomes to world history the plot develops lots of twists and turns for our street-smart Tom to overcome and prove himself against the dark forces all too ready to knock him back. This is the first in the series and I am eager to see where and what Tom and his fellow thieves get up to next.
Roger, Little Unity
