by Robin Jarvis · Wayland · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780750008907
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«The Alchymist's Cat» is the fantasy novel by Robin Jarvis, published by Wayland in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Young Will Godwin travels to London in 1664 and enters the service of the alchemist Elias Theophratus Spittle. One freezing night he finds a cat and her three kittens, unleashing a tale of villainy, sorcery and murder in which magic and the secrets of Spittle's laboratory take centre stage.
First volume of the The Deptford Histories series and a prequel to the Deptford Mice trilogy.
For young readers aged about 10 and up, and fans of dark stories with animal protagonists.
Robin Jarvis is a British young adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for young adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister "world-switching" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear. (The Wyrd Museum series), dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast (The Whitby Witches trilogy), epic medieval adventure (The Oaken Throne) and science-fiction dramatising the "nefarious intrigue" within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I. (Deathscent).
