Praise for
‘McNish tells a rattling good tale, and his well-plotted narrative races through some excellent twists and turns to a spectacular climax’ The Daily Telegraph ‘McNish has a powerful imagination’
The Times
‘The language used is rich and evocative, full of visual and sensory imagery . . . it captures the readers interest and imagination from the beginning and holds it with ease to the end’ School Librarian ‘Anyone who enjoyed The Doomspell will want to follow it up with The Scent of Magic, in which the battle between the Witches and Earth’s children moves onto our planet’ The Times ‘The Scent of Magic continues The Doomspell story, but if anything the characterisations are deeper, the plot even more intriguing, and it is all carried off with a verve, pace and sheer passion for pure storytelling that make McNish’s novels so compulsive’ Amazon ‘It is a spellbinding read full of excitement and suspense. A brilliant sequel to The Doomspell ’ Cool Reads
THE
8CENToF AGIC
Cliff McNish
First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Orion Children’s Books Paperback edition first published in 2002 by Dolphin Paperbacks Reissued in 2008 by Orion Children’s Books Reissued in 2012 by Hodder and Stoughton This edition published in 2017 by Doomspell Books 5 7 9 10 8 6
Text copyright © Cliff McNish, 2001 Illustrations copyright © Geoff Taylor, 2001
The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted. All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published an and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 0 9955821 3 2
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
www.cliffmcnish.com
The final gripping instalment
The magic of all children has been released. Now, throughout the skies of Earth they fly, playing the deadly spell-games.
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Only Rachel watches for what she knows is coming – the invasion of the Witches. And this time there is a new enemy – the terrifying Griddabreed. Rachel and Eric will need all their skill and courage in the coming battle – knowing that if they fail, the whole world will be engulfed in darkness.
Find out how it all began in the first of
In a blaze of light, rush of wind and scrabble of claws, Rachel and Eric are ripped through a wall onto another world. Like thousands before them, they have been snatched by the Witch.
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Rachel discovers that she has extraordinary gifts – magical gifts similar to the Witch’s own. The Witch is excited to have found someone she thinks she can use for her own evil purposes. But, for the Witch’s victims, Rachel is their only hope . . .
THE DOOMSPELL TRILOGY So far, translated into 26 languages