The New Policeman

The New Policeman
First edition
AuthorKate Thompson
Cover artistPaul Hess[1]
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLiddy[1]
GenreChildren's fantasy novel
PublisherThe Bodley Head
Publication date
May 2005
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages407 pp (first edition)
ISBN037032823X
OCLC441364138
LC ClassPZ7.T3715965 Ne 2007[2]

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 the human world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies.[3] It inaugurated a series that is sometimes referred to as the Liddy series.[1]

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

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

  1. ^ a b c d e Liddy series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2012-08-01
  2. ^ a b "The new policeman" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  3. ^ WorldCat. 2012-08-01.
  4. ^ "THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  5. ^ "Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2005". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  6. ^ "The New Policeman". rbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  7. ^ Xun zhao shi jian de ren (first Chinese edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-01.