Somerset, UK: Chicken House, 2002. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. No marks of inscriptions; minor indentation on several front pages. SIGNED by the author.

International bestseller about two orphaned brothers who escape to Venice. They join a gang of homeless children who are hiding out at an old cinema and are looked after by a boy who has named himself the ‘Thief Lord’. This novel has won the Zurich Children's book award and the Children's Book Award given by the Vienna House of Literature.