Great links, but the railway man is a memorial to the great western rr employees that volunteered for the great war, it was sculpted by Jagger, it is a soldier reading a letter.
6:42 PM
[Image]I am late to the table discovering this series. Stoneheart [Image](Hyperion, 2007) by Charlie
Fletcher is a page-turner with an intriguing focus for a
fantasy novel.
George , 12 years old, breaks off the head of a dragon
carving from the wall of the museum during a class field trip. Uh-oh.
This action opens the way into an unseen dimension of London where all
the statues of the city are good (the spits) and trying to help him or
bad (the taints)
and trying to kill him. He meets a girl named Edie who has the unwanted
ability to see past events.
[Image]For this Anglophile, the most delightful aspect to these books (I am in
the middle of the second volume, Ironhand) is identifying the REAL
statues and public art in London that are characters in the story.
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The cover art for Stoneheart [Image]IS the Temple Bar Griffin or
Dragon.
Locating the statues and memorials in the
story has turned into a kind of obsession right now. Some of the ones that I have
identified include Boadicea and her daughters, Peter Pan, the Royal
Artillery monument, the Black Friar Pub and more
The audio books are read by the wondrous, Jim Dale. He is so
firmly the voice of Harry Potter for me that I do not always enjoy his
readings of other books, but this series is OUTSTANDING. The storyline,
characters and locales play to all his strengths as a
narrator.
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Fletcher is improving as a writer. Ironhand is stronger than the first volume. (Must identify the statue on the cover now.) The final volume Silvertongue should be a cracking read.
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Close this window Jump to comment formI'm even later to the table then you! I'll add these to my list--they sound great.
3:34 PM
Oh boy, these are sooo good.
Also, just found the Cnihtengild statue from the cover of Ironhand!
http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=371e9c39-af04-4248-ac98-c34dcbd9ad42&lat=51.517067&lon=-0.077883&t=4&id=Cnihtengild,%20Devonshire%20Square
12:21 AM
Great links, but the railway man is a memorial to the great western rr employees that volunteered for the great war, it was sculpted by Jagger, it is a soldier reading a letter.
6:42 PM