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|title=The Mousehunter

|author=Alex Milway

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=420

|publisher=Faber and Faber

|isbn=978-0571234332

|sort=Mousehunter, The

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I wasn't aware there were still sailing boats plying the seventeen seas. I didn't know there was a place called Old Town, charming except for being enclosed, and the smell of the corpses littering the docks and the gibbet, and I certainly didn't know anything of how a manic collector of mice could incite such a rollicking adventure as pirates face off at sea, giants and erratic submariners join the fray, and political shenanigans and curses engage all, with a young girl thrust into the centre of the action in a nice, tomboyish way.

The book loses just a little for the possibly too-oddball adventures, and for the clunk you feel when you realise there is more to come – and what can only seem like an over-long wait before the sequel is in our hands. Apart from that the book is very well worthy of a Bookbag recommendation, and we would like to thank Faber and Faber for sending a copy to us to review.

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