Book description
It is the latter part of the 21st century, and dramatic climate
change has made life in Ireland almost impossible. Meanwhile, Tir na
n'Og is faced with a refugee problem, and the king of the fairies is
not happy about it and when it is revealed that the warlord who is
behind the problem is a member of the Liddy family, JJ is sent to sort
him out...
Following on from The New Policeman and The Last of the
High Kings, The White Horse Trick travels from the now to
far distant futures: from world's end to world's beginning..
Kate Thompson is one of the most exciting authors writing for
young people today for she is a born storyteller, highly original and
thought provoking in her ideas. She has travelled widely in the USA
and India and studied law in London. After living in County Clare, she
moved to Kinvara in County Galway and there, three years ago, she
discovered her passion for playing the fiddle. She is now an
accomplished player and also has a great interest in restoring
instruments.
Kate is the only author to win the Children's Books Ireland Bisto
Book of the Year award four times - in 2002 for The Beguilers, in 2003
for The Alchemist's Apprentice, in 2004 for Annan Water and in 2006
for The New Policeman.
The New Policeman also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
2005, the Whitbread Book Award Children's category 2005, the
Children's Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards in March 2006 and
has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
The Last of the High Kings was shortlisted for the 2008 Children's
Books Ireland Bisto Award.
Her latest teen novel, Creature of the Night was shortlisted for the
Booktrust Teen Prize, the Irish Book Awards, the Bisto Award and the
Lancashire Book Award. It is currently longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
