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Kraken
Paperback Edition: 1
Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears?
For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god - A god that someone is hoping will end the world.
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Featured in the Autumn 2011 Teen Reads
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Publication date : 2010-12-01
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Fantasy, Historical Fiction