Product Description
Nush and the Stolen Emerald
Author: Jasbinder Bilan
Format: Paperback
A stunning royal mystery from the Costa Award-winning author of Asha & the Spirit Bird. Anushka is furious. As princess of an Indian kingdom, she has watched the British East India Company take land and her family’s most divine jewel – an emerald the size of an apple.
So when her father, the Maharaja, decides to visit Queen Victoria at Buckinham Palace, Nush goes too – determined to bring back the gem that can heal her country.
A stunning novel by bestselling author Jasbinder Bilan; author of books including Asha & the Spirit Bird, Tamarind & the Star of Ishta and Aarti & the Blue Gods.
An action-packed royal mystery for ages 9+.
Jasbinder is the winner of the Costa Book Award, The Indie Book Award and the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.
‘A gorgeous sumptuous read from a master storyteller.’
‘Beautifully written, richly atmospheric and touchingly spiritual.’
‘A light-filled, huge-hearted delight.’ — KATHERINE
‘Atmospheric, dreamy, charged with wonder and menace, loss, sorrow and delight.’ — TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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