"My favourite contemporary children's author is Philip Reeve" - Charlie Higson

An epic, thrilling, action-packed city-eat-city adventure
  starring brave fighter Tamzin Pook, who must travel
  from the spectator sport combat arena in Margate to the Thunder City,
  where a chilling, ruthless villain has seized power.
  She will face Revenants - animal/machine hybrids
  with ferocious appetites - dangerous mercenaries
  and must learn to trust a group of oddballs whose eccentricities
  mask their huge hearts and steadfast courage.





  The Mortal Engines series has sold over half a million copies
  in the UK alone via Nielsen Bookscan. Its epic appeal crosses all
  age ranges

  Reeve's novels have won the Guardian Children's Award,
  Blue Peter Award, Smarties Gold Prize and the Carnegie Medal.


  Mortal Engines is now a feature film produced by Lord
  of the Rings director, Peter Jackson