The City's Son (The Skyscraper Throne)

Buy. Read. Collect.

UK's largest specialist in first edition, signed books. Located in
the world famous Cecil Court.

Join Our Mailing List

Privacy by SafeSubscribe ^TM

Book Details

Signed by the author

£12.99

The City's Son (The Skyscraper Throne)

Author: Tom Pollock

Price: £12.99

Published by: Jo Fletcher Books

Date Available: 07 June 2012

All of our books have clear protective, removable film on the dustwrapper and are packed professionally in bubble wrap and a box for shipping so that they reach you in perfect condition

Details

Synopsis

Expelled from school, betrayed by her best friend and virtually ignored by her dad, who's never recovered from the death of her mum, Beth Bradley retreats to the sanctuary of the streets, looking for a new home. What she finds is Filius Viae, the ragged and cocky crown prince of London, who opens her eyes to the place she's never truly seen. But the hidden London is on the brink of destruction. Reach, the King of the Cranes, is a malign god of demolition, and he wants Filius dead. In the absence of the Lady of the Streets, Filius' goddess mother, Beth rouses Filius to raise an alleyway army, to reclaim London's skyscraper throne for the mother he's never known. Beth has almost forgotten her old life - until her best friend and her father come searching for her, and she must choose between the streets and the life she left behind. This is the first of a series, an urban fable about friends, family and monsters, and how you can't always tell which is which.

About the Author

Tom Pollock is a graduate of the Sussex University Creative Writing Programme, and a member of the London-based writers' group The T-Party. He has lived everywhere from Scotland to Sumatra, but the peculiar magic of London has always drawn him back. www.tompollock.com.

Additional Information

Cover Type: Hardback

ISBN: 978-1780870069

People who ordered this also ordered...

Young Sherlock Holmes 2: Red Leech - Goldsboro Exclusive Hardback

Black Ice - Young Sherlock Holmes - Goldsboro Exclusive Numbered hardback (500)

Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm

Lost Christmas - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again

Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London 3)

Advent - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED

Endgame

A Dance With Dragons: Book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire

The Straight Razor Cure - AUGUST 2011 BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Wordsmith's Tale - Special Edition Hardback

Black Halo

Nights of Villjamur - NUMBERED EDITION

City of Ruin - NUMBERED EDITION

The Book of Transformations - Numbered Edition of 150 copies

Solace - SIGNED & pre-publication DATED

The Cold Commands

All That I Am - October Book of the Month 2011

Coming soon

Top Sellers

Signed by the author

UK First Edition / First Printing

£12.99

Spartacus: Rebellion

by Ben Kane

Synopsis

The mighty slave army led by Spartacus has carried all before it, shredding the armies of three praetors, two consuls and one proconsul. Outsid ... read more

Release 16 August 2012

Publisher Preface

ISBN 9781848092310

Send Me Safely Back Again (Napoleonic War 3)

UK First Edition / First Printing

Signed by the author

£12.99

Send Me Safely Back Again (Napoleonic War 3)

by Adrian Goldsworthy

Synopsis

The third novel in the series sees new challenges for the men of the 106th Foot, as the British army attempts to recover from the disaster of C ... read more

Release 09 August 2012

Publisher Weidenfeld Nicolson

ISBN 978-0297866626

Signed by the author

UK First Edition / First Printing

£18.99

A Wanted Man: (Jack Reacher 17)

by Lee Child

Synopsis

Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories t ... read more

Release 03 September 2012

Publisher Bantam Press

ISBN 978-0593065730

Coming Soon

Top Sellers

Signed by the author

£9.99

Spook's Bestiary

by Joseph Delaney

Synopsis

A companion title to the phenomenally successful Spook’s series. Discover how to bind a boggart and deal with a dead witch in this fascina... read more

Release 13 October 2010

Publisher Bodley Head

ISBN 978-0370329796

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£19.99

Bloody Meadow - SIGNED, LINED & DATED

by William Ryan

Synopsis

Following his investigations in The Holy Thief, which implicated those at the very top of authority in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev fin... read more

Release 02 September 2011

Publisher Mantle

ISBN 978-023074274L

UK First Edition, Signed and Lined by the author

£12.99

Spartacus: The Gladiator - SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DATED

by Ben Kane

Synopsis

The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave ... read more

Release 19 January 2012

Publisher Preface

ISBN 978-1848093409

23-25, Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ|
Tel: +44 (0) 207 497 9230|
Fax: +44 (0) 207 497 9230|
enquiries@goldsborobooks.com