The Abarat a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands âe" one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time.Ĭandy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown, USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely, one which links her to marvels and mysteriesâe"and even to murderâe¦ Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the paintings alone.
Where is when? Can you remember which island is at which hour.A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Worry not and click on the words below, for the Abaratian Lexicon holds the answers! Your Juffet Bird? Can you remember Candy's middle name? Or what Prince Quiffin or Legitimate Eddie look like? More detail on Books Four and Five of the Abarat series can be found by clicking on the image below.Ībarat has now been published in over 40 countries - click the globe to see how different it can look.Ĭlive has invented an entire world in writing Abarat - and everything needs a name! Watch the Abarat Absolute Midnight trailer here now! This edition also now includes an updated glossary and hints of what is yet to come in the final books of Abarat.Īvailable on the iBookstore from 1 March 2012 at £5.99 / $8.99
Featuring Clive’s work-in-progress illustrations for all three volumes, this full-colour edition also looks at Clive's writing and painting styles and features an extended, in-depth interview with Clive done by a classroom of young Abarat readers. The revised edition of Beneath the Surface includes new material from the latest volume of Clive Barker’s Abarat – Absolute Midnight.
The paperback edition of Absolute Midnight was released in the UK on 11 October 2012Ĭlick on the images below to find out more!Ĭlive is still painting and the canvases for Books Four and Five are currently filling up his house. Abarat: Absolute Midnight was published in September 2011. War - followed in September 2004, with both volumes spreading across the world in foreign language editions. The first volume - called simply Abarat - was published in October 2002 and the second volume - Abarat : Days of Magic, Nights of The Book Of Hours became a whole world - The Abarat - and as the paintings kept coming, so the story grew and grew into a series of The illustrations for a collection of 25 tales a 'Book of Hours' which would describe all the emotions of a day, hour by hour (with an In 1995 Clive began painting huge dream-images which were wholly unlike his previous paintings.
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