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Mortal Engines Quartet Series

Embark on a thrilling journey through a world where cities are massive moving machines, hunting smaller settlements for survival. This saga explores the boundaries of morality and humanity in a gritty, post-apocalyptic landscape. Follow young protagonists as they become entangled in a vast conspiracy that threatens the very future of civilization. It's a gripping adventure filled with high-octane action, betrayal, and profound discovery.

Night flights
Night Flights: A Mortal Engines Collection
A Darkling Plain
Infernal Devices
Predator's Gold
Mortal Engines.

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Mortal Engines.

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future, and is now released with a film tie-in cover. The first installment introduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous Hester Shaw, flung from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping adventures in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground. "No 11-to-16-year-old should miss the superbly imagined debut novel from Philip Reeve" - The Times "This big, brave, brilliant book combines a thrilling adventure story with endless moral conundrums" - Guardian

    Mortal Engines.1
    3.7

  2. Predator's Gold

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    Philip Reeve is back with this gripping sequel to the Smarties Gold Awardwinner, Mortal Engines. Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect, the Green Storm, Tom and Hester are left drifting in the frozen Ice Wastes, slowly dying of cold after the Jenny Haniver's engines have failed. They are saved at the last minute, finding Anchorage, a once-beautiful ice city that has fallen on hard times. Crippled by plague, there are barely fifty souls on Anchorage now, and the teenage margravine has made a desperate choice. They are heading for America, the Dead Continent...

    Predator's Gold2
    3.8

  3. Infernal Devices

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Wren longs to escape from Anchorage. She craves the dangerous adventures her parents once had - and a charming submarine pirate is ready to take her to sea. But the object that she steals for him ignites a conflict that will tear the whole world apart... The third thrilling instalment of Reeve's critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet.

    Infernal Devices3
    3.6

  4. A Darkling Plain

    • 568 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    Wren and her father are Tom traveling the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed them. In the ruined wreckage of the city of London they make a discovery that will change the world. The fourth instalment of Reeve's critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet.

    A Darkling Plain4
    4.2

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  • Night Flights: A Mortal Engines Collection

    • 208 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    Explore the expansive universe of "Mortal Engines" through a collection of new short stories that enrich the narrative ahead of the film's release. These tales delve into the intricacies of the world created by Philip Reeve, featuring captivating illustrations that enhance the reading experience. Perfect for fans eager to immerse themselves further in the story before the highly anticipated film, produced by Peter Jackson.

    Night Flights: A Mortal Engines Collection
    4.0

  • Night flights

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    Return to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of three short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang, illustrated by Ian McQue. A key character in the Mortal Engines book and film, this is your chance to learn more of her past. Night Flights includes Traction City, the 2011 World Book Day Book by Philip Reeve. In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorised cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang - pilot, adventurer, spy - isn't afraid. The three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control and her free life as an intelligence agent for the Anti-Traction league that might not be quite as free as she hoped.

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  • The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. Now, in time for the film debut, the critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet is brought to life in a comprehensive, full-colour illustrated guide to the world Philip Reeve has created across 15 years and 8 books.

    The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines
    4.4