Description

Julia Golding’s award-winning adventure series is perfect for fans of Katherine Woodfine, Robin Stevens and J.T. Williams. This HarperCollins Children Classics edition features special bonus material.

Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award.

‘I am Cat Royal – Orphan, Adventurer, Actress …

‘Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies and four hundred and thirty-eight rioters. I was brought up in Drury Lane, so I have become accustomed to a life less than ordinary. But this turn of events, I have to say, surprised even me. Follow me, and I will show you in The Diamond of Drury Lane.’

Exciting, funny and packed with adventure … Cat Royal never fails to stir up trouble wherever she goes. Julia Golding’s award-winning adventure series has all the ingredients of a Philippa Gregory book for children aged 9 years and up.

This Classic edition features cover artwork by Chloe Bonfield and special bonus material:

Q&A with Julia Golding

Journey with Cat through 1790s London

Cat’s Slang: the origins of some of the unusual language found in the book

Fascinating facts about the use of special effects in the 18th-century theatre

Publisher Review

'Golding's tale of Cat Royal is exciting, funny and of course, packed with adventure,' Guardian 'The story itself plunges headlong from the theater into 1790s-era London's muddy streets,' Kirkus Starred Review 'It contains a wonderful colourful cast of characters - awkward actors, on stage, and off, barrow boys in the grimy marketplace, street gangs fighting for territory...and it's packed with local colour and authentic detail. And of course there is the diamond mystery. What more could you want?' Toppsta 'Julia Golding takes us into an authentically smelly and dangerous world and my guess is that confident readers of 10+ will love it. A terrific read.' The Historical Novel Society 'A truly exciting, unputdownable read!' Books for Topics