These books are stunning – the cover has a beautiful illustration.  And inside Ian has created stunning hand drawn illustrations for your collection and signed and numbered them 1 of 1. These are totally exclusive to this website.

Many authors have tried to write the next series to replace Harry Potter and failed. However it’s true to say that Ian’s work is hot property as he has secured numerous film deals – so who knows what may happen!

Also Ian Beck is now executive producer on the proposed live action Tom Trueheart film and the script is being written at the moment.  Plus he has finished Tom Trueheart 3 which has just been published.

Review
Praise for The Hidden Kingdom: This book has a timeless charm . . . It has the potential to become a classic. (www.thebookbag.co.uk )

. . . an adventure story that will keep readers of 10-plus absorbed to the very last word. (Newbury Weekly News )

Praise for iThe Secret History of Tom Trueheartr: Ian Beck’s prose has a crisp and springy rhythm. His illustrations, gnarled silhouettes, are marvellously complex. If you turn them upside down, they change completely. A volume to treasure. (Telegraph )

a delightful book, and one with a wide potential audience . . . a story with a timeless quality and great charm for bedtime reading upwards. (Marcus Sedgwick, Literary Review )

Praise for iTom Trueheart in the Land of Dark Storiesr: a pleasure to hold, read aloud and explore (Amanda Craig )

the makings of a modern classic. The book is beautifully produced and the story itself has everything: pace, humour, a likeable hero and just the right amount of excitement to keep you turning the pages. (School Librarian )

Book Description

An ancient danger. A secret army. A brand new hero . . .

Product Description

A pampered prince who has to give up everything he has ever known. A warrior-like girl who has promised to carry out her duty at any cost. An obedient young servant with a mission to complete and an icy chill in his heart. As ancient demons rise around them and conspire to destroy their world, only these three people can defeat the evil which threatens to engulf them. But to do so they must first find a way to survive in the bitter, snowy lands where they are banished, and discover how to work together despite their differences. Only then will they be able to raise the secret armies of the hidden kingdom and fight for a new future together.

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: OUP Oxford (6 Oct 2011)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 0192755633
• ISBN-13: 978-0192755636
• Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.5 cm

Book Description
Pastworld. A city within a city. A city for excursions and outings. Pastworld is a theme park with a difference, where travellers can travel back in time for a brush with an authentic Victorian past. But what if the Jack the Ripper figure stopped play-acting and really started killing people? For Caleb, a tourist from the present day, his visit goes terribly wrong when his father is kidnapped and he finds himself accused of murder. Then Caleb meets Eva Rose, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no idea the modern world exists. Both Caleb and Eva have roles to play in the murderer’s diabolical plans – roles that reveal disturbing truths about their origins.

Product Description
Review
`Well-paced with more twists than the Fantom’s slippery path’
–The Bookseller

`Ian Beck . . . has crafted an exciting steampunk novel that blends Dickens and Conan Doyle with Michael Crichton and V for Vendetta to good effect’
–James Lovegrove, Financial Times

`A suspenseful mixture of thriller, romance and sci-fi . . . An assured step into the world of longer fiction which . . . walks the tightrope of plot with the same confidence as his heroine’
–The Times

`Will not disappoint those readers who enjoy crime and mystery stories with a dash of science fiction . . . highly recommended for readers at the upper end of KS3 and KS4′
–School Librarian

`Definitely not for the faint hearted. It is gripping and exciting’
–Teen Titles magazine
About the Author
Ian Beck is well known as an illustrator as well as more recently a writer of young fiction with the publication of the very succesful Tom Trueheart titles by OUP. This is his first foray in to the world of teen fiction. Ian lives in West London. He began his career as an illustrator working on album covers including the still in-print classic cover for Elton John’s album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Biography
Ian was born in Hove on the Sussex coast in 1947. At the age of thirteen, after seeing an exhibition of drawings for the Radio Times, he was fired with enthusiasm about illustration and began attending Saturday painting classes at the nearby Brighton College of Art. Ian left school at fifteen and went immediately to the college at Brighton to study art full-time. There he was taught by both Raymond Briggs, John Vernon Lord, and John Lawrence.

Ian has worked in many fields of illustration. He was involved in the record industry in the late 1960s and 1970s, and painted the cover of one of the most iconic and popular records of all time: Elton John’s double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. One of Ian’s picture book titles, Lost in the Snow, was made into an animated film for TV. He has often illustrated traditional folk and fairy tales, and the work of many authors including Rose Impey, Geraldine Macaughrean,and Philip Pullman,as well as his own stories, such as Tom and The Island of Dinosaurs, The Teddy Robber and Home Before Dark. In 2006 he published his first novel for children, The Secret History of Tom Trueheart Boy Adventurer, this was followed by two other titles in the series, Tom Trueheart and the Land of Dark Stories and Tom Trueheart and the Land of Myths and Legends. The Tom Trueheart books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has also written for older children and teens, his novel Pastworld was published in 2009 and has been optioned as a major film. His most recent books are The Hidden Kingdom, and The Haunting of Charity Delafield. He is currently working on three new fiction projects as well as drawing a set of pictures of silent film stars for the Nightingale Project to cheer up hospital spaces. His books have now sold a million copies worldwide.

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (5 Oct 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747581738
• ISBN-13: 978-0747581734
• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 20.6 cm