Julius and the Watchmaker
Author(s): Tim Hehir
Julius Higgins runs errands delivering books to customers of his grandfather's bookshop-when he's not running from Crimper McCready and his gang of bullies. Then a mysterious clock collector turns up looking for the diary of watchmaker John Harrison. Before he knows what he's doing Julius has tricked his grandfather, run away from home and done a deal with the strange man Springheel. And that's all before he finds out that the watchmaker's diary is really an instruction manual for making a time-travel device. Now that Springheel has his hands on it, catastrophe almost certainly awaits. Julius and the Watchmaker is a fabulous time-travel adventure set in Victorian London-mostly-with an array of colourful Dickensian characters, gyrofliers, carts of offal, sharp-toothed creatures called Grackacks, and the most intricate and entrancing explanation of time and all its possible and probable futures. This debut novel is the work of a brilliant imagination, a classic in the making.
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'An exciting romp through Time, full of wonderful characters and sinister possibilities.' Lian Tanner author of The Museum Thieves
General Fields
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- : Text Publishing Co
- : The Text Publishing Company
- : 01 January 2013
- : 198mm X 128mm
- : Australia
- : 01 March 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : 352
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : Tim Hehir