D.M Cornish - Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two: Lamplighter
D.M. Cornish’s first career was as an illustrator, working freelance in Sydney and on a TV game show. After six years with the show, he went travelling and then returned to Adelaide, where he is pursuing a second career as a fantasy author and illustrator.
His trilogy Monster Blood Tattoo concerns the struggle between monsters and humankind in the world of the Half-Continent, told through the story of its hero Rossamünd. Each volume has an ‘Explicarium’ or glossary explaining the lore and history of this world in its own fascinating language. Cornish has just completed the third book, Factotum, after Foundling and Lamplighter.
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Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two: Lamplighter
The Half-Continent is becoming even more unsafe – monster attacks are on the rise, and every far-flung village or town is calling for help to fight them. Into this dangerous landscape the lamplighters must venture daily, keeping the roads safely lit for travellers. It is not a job for the faint-hearted, and every week there are reports of new theroscades. Rossamünd Bookchild, sworn into the Emperor’s Service as a prentice lamplighter, is finding his training at Winstermill Fortress difficult and lonely. His life is further complicated by the arrival of a young wit, determined to spite her famous mother by becoming a lowly lantern-stick. As Rossamünd begins to make new friends in this sinister world, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed towards a terrible destiny, a fate beyond anything he could ever have imagined.
Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two: Lamplighter is published by Scholastic
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