SN02: 2006: THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS

AWARDS

Nominee: 2007 Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year

SYNOPSIS

'Everything You Can Imagine is Real' - Pablo Picasso.

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angry and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company.

But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairy-tales so beloved of his dead mother he finds that the real world and the fantasy world have begun to meld. The Crooked Man has come, with his mocking smile and his enigmatic words: 'Welcome, your majesty. All hail the new king.'

And as war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a land that is both a construct of his imagination yet frighteningly real, a strange reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories, populated by wolves and worse-than-wolves, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a legendary book . . .

The Book of Lost Things.

COPYRIGHT

©2006 John Connolly

FIRST PUBLISHED

Hodder & Stoughton (UK, Ireland, Australia, etc.)

HB - 320 pages - 07/09/2006 - ISBN: 0340899468

Hodder & Stoughton (UK, Ireland, Australia, etc.)

Trade PB - 310 pages - 07/09/2006 - ISBN: 0340899476

Atria Books (US & Canada)

HB - 352 pages - 07/11/2006 - ISBN: 9780743298858

Edel Torr Editions (UK)

Limited Edition (of 125) HB (slipcased) - 256 pages - 19/05/2007 - ISBN: 9781905989973

NOTE: This is my copy (#122 of 125). It has a red goatskin leather spine with black cloth boards. There were colour options for both these parts.

THE EDEL TORR LIMITED EDITION

No Alibis 10th Birthday Celebrations, Saturday 19/05/2007

Featuring John Connolly, Declan Hughes, Cat Malojian & The Winding Stair

Declan Hughes read from his latest novel, as well as a section from the work-in-progress that is the third Ed Loy novel; John Connolly spoke about his love of books and No Alibis bookstore; music was provided by local groups Cat Malojian and The Winding Stair. The evening also saw the launch of the first book from No Alibis' publishing arm, EDEL TORR EDITIONS, a 125-copy limited edition of John Connolly's THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS.

Author: John Connolly

Illustrator: Anne M. Anderson

Binder: Liam McLaughlin

Publisher: Edel Torr Editions (David Torrans)

John Connolly, Anne M. Anderson and David Torrans with 4 copies of Edel Torr Editions' The Book of Lost Things.

[NO ALIBIS BOOKSTORE WEBSITE]

NOTES

For the 10th Anniversary Edition please go to:

SN04: 2016: THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

THE COLLECTED

*matches copy number of NF04: 2016: PARKER: A MISCELLANY