Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls Chris Riddell Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped

Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings living in the dark forest near his home - ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life

empathy and ambition that sweeps from the trenches of the First World War to the terrorist-besieged streets of London today: a novel that will speak to the head as well as the heart of any reader

sees a chance both to destroy the alliance and to achieve a personal revenge on Richard Sharpe

Translated by Sandra Smith

Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls Chris Riddell Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnappedEmperor Trajan is dead, long live Emperor Hadrian! Gaius Petreius Ruso is a divorced and down on his luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in one of the inclement outposts of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His arrival in Deva (more commonly known as Chester) does little to improve his mood and, after a straight thirty six hours on the wards in the Fort, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues injured slave