The Neverfear
core novel 2026 Impossible Creatures
Record
| First published | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.53 (108 ratings, collected 2026-10-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781408897515 |
Synopsis
It is the Midsummer Feast on the Islet of Glimt, and on this magical moonlit evening the word on everyone's lips is bandits. Reports of masked men burning villages are spreading throughout the Archipelago, but worse is still to come: Christopher and Anya are ambushed, and one of the people they love most is kidnapped and held to ransom. The two children, alongside Ratwin the ratatoska and Jacques the Jaculus dragon, set sail on the Neverfear to recover three precious treasures; together they must face fearsome giants, win a daring race and outwit deadly enemies to save those they love most. The third book of the Impossible Creatures series, published simultaneously in the UK and the US.
Where it sits
- Universe: Impossible Creatures
- Series: Impossible Creatures core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Katherine Rundell
Notes
- From the series record (Impossible Creatures): Katherine Rundell's planned five-book fantasy of the Archipelago, where the creatures of myth survive.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Impossible Creatures: position 3 of 3: previous The Poisoned King (2025)
Sources
- Shakespeare and Company (Bloomsbury publisher description)
- Knopf (publisher description, via Linden Tree Books)
- Series page on the rating platform (ratings and years with titles)
- Waterstones (Bloomsbury edition record)
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