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|summary=The old magic is rising, and it's up to Scarper the goblin and his human friends to save Clovenstone. Unfortunately, they're being helped (if that's the word) by some of the most useless wizards the world has ever seen.
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'''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
 
Poor Skarper. He's such a loser. In the violent and bloodthirsty goblin world where fighting and eating and taking other people's loot are all-time-favourite, number-one activities, he has a terrible handicap. He thinks. In fact, he's pretty clever, for a goblin, to the extent that he uses the goblins' bumwipe heaps for . . . reading. Yup, you heard me. Reading. The foolish hatchling works out that the black squiggles on the mouldering heaps of soft and crinkly stuff left, long ago, by the ancient inhabitants of the tower, are written words, and instead of going out raiding like any sensible goblin, he creeps off to a quiet corner to work out what they mean. Silly, eh?