Released in time to coincide with the “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” feeding frenzy in 2003, Shadowmancer quickly triggered a lot of media hype and even got itself tipped in some circles as being “hotter than Potter”. In fact, Shadowmancer soon had something of a cult growing around it, with sales outstripping many other children’s books, and first editions fetching as much as £1,000 on the web. The bewildering popularity of this novel has only grown since then, with three other books having been released to make up the Shadowmancer quartet (Wormwood, Tersias and The Shadowmancer Returns), and I understand that a film is also being made of this book by Universal Pictures (which just goes to show really that any of us can make it big with our writing, if you can become a millionaire from writing this stuff).
Shadowmancer is set in the 1700s in the smuggling country that surrounds the Yorkshire coast
