Jacob, Fox and Will are on the trail of the Dark Fairy, and this time their journey beyond the Mirrors takes them deep into the East - into the realm of Russian folklore, of Baba Yagas, Cossacks, spies, and a tsar who turns up to audiences in the company of a bear... But someone else is in control: one of the Alder Elves, Immortals at home on both sides of the Mirrors, has not forgotten the promise Jacob made him in a Bluebeard's labyrinth. He teaches the three of them more about himself and his kind than they ever wanted to know, as the worlds either side of the Mirrors begin to collide.

Author Biography

Cornelia Funke is the highly acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author of the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord and numerous other children's novels and picture books. Born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten, she worked as a social worker for a few years before turning first to illustration and then to writing. Her books have now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 37 languages.