The High Seas winter the Blue Peter Book Award

the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize comes the first novel in a landmark trilogy for 9+ fans of His Dark Materials Christopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands

yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them

and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s

from architecture to electricity

The High Seas winter the Blue Peter Book AwardTHE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping' New York Times'Powerful reportage awash with wonderful obscurities' Sunday Times'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness Shocking and starkly 'illuminating a must read' Gaia VinceThe ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of