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The Fox and the Ghost King by Michael Morpurgo

The Fox and the Ghost King

HarperCollins Children’s Books is delighted to announce a new release from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo and award-winning illustrator, Michael Foreman. The Fox and the Ghost King will publish on 22nd September 2016 in hardback with simultaneous audiobook and e-book launches. Inspired by Leicester City’s historic premiership win, The Fox… Read More

Michael Morpurgo makes short work of some classic stories

This week, Oxford University Press (OUP) have published a new collection of 35 classic books, all in new, shorter and simpler form, designed to get children hooked on the stories before they are old enough to read the original books.   The complete “Greatest Stories” collection, which Michael Morpurgo hopes… Read More

A fairy tale for Leicester

This week, Michael Morpurgo was on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme to read his Leicester football fairy tale, The Fox and the Ghost King. Michael, filming with the BBC Having made headlines with the discovery of King Richard III’s burial site being found in a car park, Leicester has… Read More

Coming October 2015 …

The extraordinary story of the man who could have stopped World War Two. A beautiful moral thriller from one of the world’s favourite storytellers. 1940. Barney and his mother, their home destroyed by bombing, are travelling to the country when their train is forced to shelter in a tunnel from… Read More

The Lusitania’s 100-Year Secret

Duncan Kennedy is joined by Micheal Morpurgo to find out why mystery still surrounds the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and pieces together what happened on that fateful last journey. Watch The Lusitania’s 100-Year Secret on BBC iPlayer. Micheal explores this in Listen to the Moon, the stunning new… Read More

Celebrate World Book Day!

From the author who brought you Joey the War Horse, Shadow the dog and Kaspar the cat comes a pocket-sized collection of perfect animal stories – proving that it’s not just dogs that are man’s best friends. Taken from the length of Michael Morpurgo’s career, the tales in this charming… Read More

The Great War: an Anthology of Stories

Longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2015, this anthology of stories inspired by real objects, by authors including David Almond, Marcus Sedgwick, Adele Geras and Michael Morpurgo and illustration by Jim Kay, reminds us of the millions of lives that were lost forever. See The Great War in pictures… Read More

A powerful collection of words

On Armistice Day, we observe a Two Minute Silence at the eleventh hour, to mark the end of the First World War. As we choose to remember all those who have given their lives for peace and freedom, we reflect on the past events that have shaped the world we… Read More

Children’s author unites generations with his war story

  It is rather unusual for a children’s author to fill his books with war and violence, but for beloved writer Michael Morpurgo, conflict became the common thread in his creations. He told CNN in an interview that aired on Thursday, “I care about war because I’m a war child. Read More

OUT 25 SEPTEMBER

The much-anticipated new WW1 novel from Michael Morpurgo is out this week! May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies – injured, thirsty, lost… and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. Read More