The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. ?Magic forged at Midsommer is the strongest and truest of all magic ? both fair and foul.? Ever since Benjamiah returned from his spectacular adventure in Wreathenwold, he?s been desperate to go back. When he discovers a strange fragment of witchstone, he is transported back to the labyrinthine streets of Wreathenwold and soon finds himself on another dangerous quest involving a strange collection of fairytales ? The Book of Barely Believable Stories. Reunited with Elizabella Cotton and helped by two new friends ? Mea and Silas the mapmaker ? the gang undertake a series of magical trials to save the missing children of Wreathenwold before Midsommer ends and they are lost forever . . .