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]
 First edition | |
| Author | Kate Thompson |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Paul Hess[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Liddy[1] |
| Genre | Children's fantasy novel |
| Publisher | The Bodley Head |
Publication date | May 2005 |
| Pages | 407 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 037032823X |
| OCLC | 441364138 |
| LC Class | PZ7.T3715965 Ne 2007[2] |
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]
Series edit
There are three novels in the Liddy series, summing more than 1100 pages in their first editions.[1]
- The New Policeman (Bodley Head, May 2005, 0-370-32823-X)
- The Last of the High Kings (Bodley Head, June 2007, 0-370-32925-2)
- The White Horse Trick (Red Fox, April 2010, 978-1-86230-941-8)
As of September 2011, HarperCollins/Greenwillow has published U.S. editions of all three.
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Liddy series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2012-08-01
- ^ a b "The new policeman" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
- ^ WorldCat. 2012-08-01.
- ^ "THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
- ^ "Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2005". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
- ^ "The New Policeman". rbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
- ^ Xun zhao shi jian de ren (first Chinese edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
External links edit
- The New Policeman in libraries (WorldCat catalog) —immediately, first US edition
- Kate Thompson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
