The New Policeman
2005 children's fantasy novel by Kate Thompson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Policeman is a children's fantasy novel by Kate Thompson, published by Bodley Head in 2005. Set in Kinvara, Ireland, it features a teenage boy, J. J. Liddy, who learns that "time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies".[3] It inaugurated a series that is sometimes called Liddy.[1]
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Author | Kate Thompson |
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Cover artist | Paul Hess[1] |
Language | English |
Series | Liddy[1] |
Genre | Children's fantasy novel |
Publisher | The Bodley Head |
Publication date | May 2005 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 407 pp (first edition) |
ISBN | 037032823X |
OCLC | 441364138 |
LC Class | PZ7.T3715965 Ne 2007[2] |
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Thompson and The New Policeman won two important annual awards, the Whitbread Children's Book Award[4] and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.[5]
The novel also won the inaugural Irish BA Award for Children's Books in 2006.[6]
HarperCollins published the first U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint in February 2007.[1][2]
A Chinese-language edition was published in 2008 with illustrations and music.[7]