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The Last Dragon Chronicles: Icefire

Book 2

Chris d'Lacey, Author

Series: The Last Dragon Chronicles

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: September 16, 2004

Category: Fantasy

ISBN: 9781843621348

Life isn’t exactly normal lodging at the Pennykettles – not when you’re surrounded by hundreds of clay pottery dragons. Fate seems to be dictating an unusual course for David when his university tutor sets him a writing project on the existence – or not – of dragons. The tantalizing prize – a fully-funded research trip to the Arctic – seems just within his grasp. David starts to research the subject and soon discovers a connection between dragons and the Arctic just as it begins to snow. Is it only a coincidence? Or could deeper forces be at work? As David starts to uncover more about the dragons, he finds himself drawn down a path from which there is no going back to a time when dragons really did exist, and their secrets were guarded by the polar bears of the Arctic. If David is going to have any chance of winning the research trip, he has to open his mind to the legend of dragons and the mysterious secret of Icefire.

Reviews

A gripping read...builds to a suitably chaotic climax

School Librarian

A very readable story

Leicester Mercury

Top-quality writing and a humorous yet suspenseful storyline

Publishing News

Dragontastic! Filled with excitement, adventure and continuous twists in the tale.

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Chris d'Lacey

Chris d’Lacey is the author of the The Last Dragon Chronicles and the Dragons of Wayward Crescent series. He likes dragons. He was born in Malta, but now lives in Devon with his wife, Jay, and about three hundred teddy bears. He likes teddy bears, too. After graduating from York University with a Biology degree, he went to Leicester University where he worked for twenty-eight years as a research scientist, mainly looking down microscopes. He now writes full time.

In his spare moments, he likes to watch TV and walk by the sea – though not necessarily at the same time. His passion is writing and recording songs. His ultimate ambition is to write a song that will feature on the soundtrack of a movie of the dragon books, always assuming a movie is made.

Presently, he is working on two new projects, both of which feature dragons to some extent.