The story of a young man grown old in war, and of his quest for peace with himself and the world.

The shattering final instalment of Philip Reeve's Predator Cities quartet flings you back into his blasted world of predator cities, ruinous wars and terrifying

A Darkling Plain fills a scholarly void by asking how people maintain or reclaim their humanity during war.

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. So begins Phi