Catherine Jinks is a medieval scholar and author of young adult
books - a background that is evident in this second of four stories
about Pagan Kidrouk. Catherine Jinks’s books have garnered numerous
awards, including the prestigious Children’s Book Council of
Australia Book of the Year. Pagan grew out of a university course
Catherine Jinks took about the Crusades and out of her fascination
with the real Order of the Templar. She was also heavily influenced
by British comedies like MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. She did
not expect, however, that she would end up writing four books about
Templar squire Pagan Kidrouk. "He was such a strong character," she
explains, "that he sprang into my head fully formed and wouldn’t go
away until I’d worked out his entire life span."
Peter de Sève, who created the striking jacket artwork for both
PAGAN'S CRUSADE and PAGAN IN EXILE, is a NEW YORKER cartoonist and
the designer of animated characters for ICE AGE, the 2002 Academy
Award winner for Best Animated Feature Film.
Catherine Jinks's Pagan in Exile follows Pagan's Crusade, which, according to PW, "turns medieval history into fodder for both high comedy and allegory." Pagan and Lord Roland travel to France in this adventure and are forced to exorcise ghosts from Lord Roland's past in the form of his duplicitous family members. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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