Book 1 of The Lantern Company

The Kindler

Magnus & Claude

Fourteen months after his brother vanished, Wick Marsh finds a message from him scratched into a post on the mudflats. Then three men in masks come out of the fog.

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About this book

Book one of the Lantern Company, a fantasy series for young readers. New version, told by Wick himself.

Wick Marsh is thirteen. Every Sunday for fourteen months he has walked out on the mud to check an old post where he and his brother used to leave each other messages in their own secret code. Every Sunday there has been nothing.

This Sunday there is something.

Contents

Chapter One

  1. I Dig Up My Brother's Letter and Get Chased by Masks 10 min

Chapter Two

  1. I Meet the Girl Who Set a Beard on Fire 11 min

Chapter Three

  1. Hettie Hits a Shadow with a Frying Pan 10 min

Chapter Four

  1. The Bookshelves Try to Squash Us and a Professor Gives Me a Sweet 10 min

Chapter Five

  1. An Otter Picks My Pocket 9 min

Chapter Six

  1. I Am Excellent at Sneaking 11 min

Chapter Seven

  1. I Freeze a River with an Eel in It 10 min

Chapter Eight

  1. Wolves Made of Hedge, and My Brother's Terrible Spelling 11 min

Chapter Nine

  1. A Stag Walks Through the Sun and I Lose 10 min

Chapter Ten

  1. A Door Asks Me a Riddle and a Statue Takes It Personally 11 min

Chapter Eleven

  1. The Cavalry Arrives, and It's Four Men and a Cough 9 min

Chapter Twelve

  1. The Easiest Battle in the World 9 min

Chapter Thirteen

  1. My Brother Has a Beard and I Have Been an Idiot 10 min

Chapter Fourteen

  1. An Otter Comes Through the Wall and Won't Give Me My Key 11 min

Chapter Fifteen

  1. I Apologise in Exactly Four Words 9 min

Chapter Sixteen

  1. I Do the One Thing My Recipe List Says Never to Do 9 min

Chapter Seventeen

  1. Everyone Gives Me Something and None of It Is Peppermint 11 min

Chapter Eighteen

  1. I Turn Fourteen and the Lantern Gets One Back 11 min