The White Horse Trick
core novel 2009 The New Policeman
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.67 (230 ratings, collected 2026-10-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781862309418 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Following on from The New Policeman and The Last of the High Kings, The White Horse Trick travels from the now to far distant futures, from world's end to world's beginning. Tír na nÓg is faced with a refugee problem, and the king of the fairies is not happy about it, and it is revealed that the warlord behind the problem is a member of the Liddy family, while a white fairy horse from Tír na nÓg has its part to play. The third and final book of Kate Thompson's trilogy of Kinvara and the land of eternal youth.
Where it sits
- Universe: The New Policeman
- Series: The New Policeman core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Kate Thompson
Notes
- First published in hardback in September 2009, per the British Council's author profile and the rating platform's record; the series' encyclopedic entry lists the Red Fox paperback of April 2010, whose ISBN is recorded.
- From the series record (The New Policeman): Kate Thompson's trilogy of the Liddy family of Kinvara and Tír na nÓg.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The New Policeman: position 3 of 3: previous The Last of the High Kings (2007)
Sources
- Wikipedia (The New Policeman)
- Bodley Head (publisher description, via Risingshadow)
- Red Fox (publisher description, via Risingshadow)
- British Council Literature (author profile)
- Author note on the book's record
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