The New Policeman

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The New Policeman
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First edition
Author Kate Thompson
Cover artist Paul Hess [1]
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLiddy [1]
Genre Children's fantasy novel
Publisher The Bodley Head
Publication date
May 2005
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages407 pp (first edition)
ISBN 037032823X
OCLC 441364138
LC Class PZ7.T3715965 Ne 2007 [2]

The New Policeman is a children's fantasy novel by Kate Thompson, published by Bodley Head in 2005. Set in Kinvara, Ireland, it features a teenage boy, J. J. Liddy, who learns that time is leaking from the human world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies. [3] It inaugurated a series that is sometimes referred to as the Liddy series. [1]

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Thompson and The New Policeman won two important annual awards, the Whitbread Children's Book Award [4] and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. [5]

The novel also won the inaugural Irish BA Award for Children's Books in 2006. [6]

HarperCollins published the first U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint in February 2007. [1] [2]

A Chinese-language edition was published in 2008 with illustrations and music. [7]

Series

There are three novels in the Liddy series, summing more than 1100 pages in their first editions. [1]

As of September 2011, HarperCollins/Greenwillow has published U.S. editions of all three.

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  2. 1 2 "The new policeman" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
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