Inkheart #4: Inkheart 4: The Colour of Revenge PB New Award-winning author by Cornelia Funke (author)

A brilliant new stand-alone novel that returns to the beloved world of the Inkheart trilogy – over 14 million copies sold worldwide! ‘It’s great to have this wonderful writer back on our shelves.’ DAVID ALMOND

After five happy years, Meggie, her father Mo and the fire-eater Dustfinger, along with a host of new friends, feel safe and settled.

But arch-villain Orpheus has found an unexpected way to wreak his revenge on the Inkworld!

He has corrupted an artist to create bewitched portraits that will see the heroes fade to grey – Dustfinger, his brave stepson, Jehan, and his enigmatic friend Lilia, must come together to find a way to save them all!

This is the Colour of Revenge . . .

Features gorgeous new illustrations from Cornelia Funke herself.

Cornelia Funke is the critically-acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of Dragon Rider and The Thief Lord.

Inkheart is a major feature film, currently streaming on Netflix, from the makers of The Lord of the Rings, starring Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany and Brendan Fraser!

PRAISE FOR THE INKHEART SERIES:

‘I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that conveys so well the joys, terrors and pitfalls of reading’ DIANA WYNNE JONES, author of Howl’s Moving Castle

‘One of the outstanding children’s novels of the year.’ THE TIMES

‘A breathtakingly fast-moving tale.’ THE INDEPENDENT

’... a rollicking good tale that pulls you swiftly through its pages.’ THE TELEGRAPH

Product Details

Catalogue number

2529 in Global Primary May 2025

Series

Inkheart (book 4)

ISBN

9781915947611

Publisher

Chicken House Ltd

Date published

April 10th, 2025

Other details

352 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Inkheart

Author/Illustrator

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke is the hugely successful author of the Inkheart Trilogy, The Thief Lord and a whole host of other popular children’s novels and picture books. She was born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten. After finishing her studies, Cornelia worked for three years as a social worker. For a while she illustrated books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the tales that had appealed to the children she had worked with.

During the late 1980s and the 1990s, she established herself in Germany with two children’s series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Her international break-through came with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider (1996), which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 weeks, and was continued with The Thief Lord (2000, translated into English in 2002), which immediately climbed to the #2 position of the New York Times bestseller list, stayed there for 19 weeks and sold 1.5 million copies.

Her follow-up novel was Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award. Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Cornelia her second BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award (2006). The trilogy concluded with Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, England in Spring 2008, USA Autumn 2008). Inkheart the movie was also released in 2008 and starred Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren and Paul Bettany.

Cornelia’s brand new novel Reckless is released worldwide on September 14th 2010.