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It's perhaps not surprising that J J Liddy's children are a little eccentric, especially 11-year old Jenny. She spends entire days roaming the mountainside. It’s up there that she meets the ghost and discovers that the future of the entire human race is threatened...

The Last of the High Kings is the sequel to The New Policeman and winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, The Whitbread Children’s Book Award and Carnegie Medal runner-up.

Synopsis

J J Liddy sometimes blames his unreliable temperament on the visit he made to Tir na nOg, the land of eternal youth, when he was fifteen years old. It's perhaps not surprising that his children have also turned out to be a little eccentric, especially eleven-year-old Jenny. She forgets to go to school, can't bear to wear shoes, and spends entire days roaming the mountainside.

It is up there that she meets the ghost. He is guarding a pile of rocks known as the beacon, and when some archaeologists arrive to excavate it, they run into the strangest kind of obstruction.

But it is not people the ghost fears, and when the real enemy finally reveals itself, the future of the entire human race is threatened. Only Aengus Og and his fairy kin can help now.

But why should fairies bother themselves with human affairs?

About The Author

Kate Thompson is one of the most exciting authors writing for young people today: she is a born storyteller, highly original and thought provoking in her ideas. She has travelled widely in the USA and India and studied law in London.

After living in County Clare, Ireland, for several years, she moved to Kinvara in County Galway and it was there that she discovered her passion for playing the fiddle. She is now an accomplished player and also has a great interest in restoring instruments. Kate is a multi-award winning author and the only author to win the Children's Books Ireland Bisto Book of the Year award four times.