[b]Cornelia Funke[/b] is a critically acclaimed, award-winning, international best-selling author. She lives in Hamburg with her husband and two children.[b]Inkheart 01 - Inkheart[/b]Mo, a gentle bookbinder with an extraordinary secret, and his daughter Meggie love books, yet he has not read aloud to her since her mother disappeared years ago. After a mysterious stranger visits them, Mo tells Meggie they must go into hiding. But why? - and from whom?[img]http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n14/n70564.jpg[/img][b]Inkheart 02 - Inkspell[/b]Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.[img]http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n28/n143550.jpg[/img][b]Inkheart 03 - Inkdeath[/b]The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrends. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?[img]http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n47/n239582.jpg[/img][b]The Thief Lord[/b]Winter has come early to Venice. Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city. Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with disguises and the health of his pet tortoises. But a greater threat to the boys' new-found freedom is something from a forgotten past-a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself. Wonderful. An exciting and richly atmospheric thriller told in the best storytelling tradition by a bestselling international children's author.[img]http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n14/n70565.jpg[/img]