The Poisoned King

Katherine Rundell

Sep 2025 · Impossible Creatures Book 2 · Sold by Knopf Books for Young Readers

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368

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This book will become available on September 16, 2025. You will not be charged until it is released.

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About this ebook

The dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's runaway bestselling Impossible Creatures series.

Return to the magic of the Archipelago.

"Come, and bring the dragon: there is justice to be done."

Katherine Rundell’s story will be brought vividly to life with more than sixty illustrations, including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures.

About the author

KATHERINE RUNDELL is the internationally bestselling author of Impossible Creatures. Her other books for children include Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, and The Good Thieves. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. For adult readers, Rundell has written Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures and Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was the recipient of the British Book Award for Book of the Year and Author of the Year.

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