Clockwork or All Wound Up

by Philip Pullman

Peter Bailey (Illustrator)

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Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . .

It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow.

Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it.

Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . . .

  • ISBN10 0241326311
  • ISBN13 9780241326312
  • Publish Date 7 June 2018 (first published 1 October 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Puffin
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 128
  • Language English