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    Title
    Blood Red, Snow White
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Marcus Sedgwick
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 304
    Width: 128 mm
    Height: 197 mm
    Thickness: 25 mm
    Weight: 300 g
    Audience
    Children/juvenile
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781842556375
    ISBN 10: 1842556371
    Classifications
    Dewey: 823.92
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: Y2.1
    BISAC category code: JUV000000
    BICMainSubject: YFB
    Edition statement
    Mass Market Paperback
    Illustrations note
    col. map
    Publisher
    Orion Publishing Co
    Imprint name
    Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
    Publication date
    29 May 2008
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Biographical note
    Marcus Sedgwick is a full time author. His first novel, Floodland, won the Branford Boase Award for the best debut children's novel of 2000. Since then his books have been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Costa Book Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. He lives near Cambridge.
    Promotional headline
    The Russian Revolution - fairy tale, spy thriller, love story - one man's life during the last days of the Romanovs.
    Description for sales people
    Marcus Sedgwick won the TEENAGE BOOK TRUST PRIZE 2007 for MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING and REVOLVER has been shortlisted for the 2010 CARNEGIE MEDAL.
    Main description
    Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It's real history - about the riches and excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas and Alexandra, their haemophiliac son, Alexei, notorious Rasputin, Lenin and Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man was real too, his name was Arthur Ransome. He was a writer, accused of being a spy, perhaps even a double agent, and he left his wife and beloved daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia. Fictionalising history and blending it with real life, part i is told as a fairy tale. Wise and foolish kings, princesses, enchantresses (characters more suited to fairy tale than reality), wishes and magic, Russia with its vast cold plains and mighty cities, its riches and poverty, all play a part in the downfall of the Czars and rise of the new order. Part ii is about betrayal - Ransome the spy, bleak and threatening. Part iii is a love story, a fairy tale, ending - of Ransome's love for his daughter, Tabitha, and for Evgenia.