Summary
Charlie Fletcher: Heart of Stone
When George inadvertently breaks off a piece of a small stone dragon located on the Natural History Museum building, he finds himself suddenly immersed in a world he does not understand; he is thrust into a panicked race for survival in a city where animated sculptures and stone statues fight, where it is impossible to know who to trust and where nothing is as it seems.
This first part of Charlie Fletcher's exciting trilogy takes you on an adventure and into the dark and authentic space of the City of London as never seen before, about a world where a twelve-year-old boy fends off an animated stone statues that begin to attack him and haunt.
From Gunner, a walking and talking statue, George learns that he has entered another dimension of reality and that his arrival has started a war between good and evil statues.
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Charlie Fletcher (1960) is a British writer and screenwriter. He is the author of the acclaimed trilogy of children's fantasy novels, Heart of Stone, Iron Hand and Silver Tongue. A Heart of Stone was nominated for the prestigious Branford Boase Award for Children's Literature in 2007, and was also nominated for the Guardian Children's Literature Award.
After studying English Literature, Fletcher began a career in the film business and was employed by the BBC as a film editor.
He then went to California where he began working as a screenwriter, and won a Warner Brothers Screenwriting Fellowship at USC School of Cinema and TV. He wrote scripts for the companies Tri-Star, MGM, Paramount and Warner Bros. He continues to write for film and television.
He also writes for magazines, then scripts for computer games, and works for the Sunday newspaper where he is a columnist and restaurant reviewer.
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