{"id":1754,"date":"2018-05-08T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T10:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2018-05-08T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T10:40:25","slug":"the-chosen-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/05\/08\/the-chosen-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chosen Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Professor Scarlett Thomas of the University of Kent&#8217;s School of English releases her highly anticipated second book in the Worldquake series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/04\/COcropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1755\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/04\/COcropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/04\/COcropped.jpg 906w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/04\/COcropped-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/04\/COcropped-768x350.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Effie Truelove has learned to travel through magical books to the Otherworld.<\/p>\n<p>Maximillian Underwood, Effie&#8217;s classmate, is more interested in the dark and forbidden Underworld.<\/p>\n<p>When Effie and Maximilian both mysteriously vanish, their friends Raven, Lexy and Wolf don&#8217;t know where to turn for help.\u00a0 Raven is a witch and her horse, Echo, has revealed that Effie is in deep danger and time is running out.<\/p>\n<p>To make things worse, Raven&#8217;s mother, the author Laurel Wilde, is caught up in a plot with ruthless billionaire Albion Freake, who, it seems, will stop at nothing to become invincible.<\/p>\n<h6><em>Scarlett Thomas will be launching The Chosen Ones at this week&#8217;s Creative Writing Reading Series, on Tuesday the 8th May in Keynes SCR.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a32 in the bucket for wine, juice and inspiration.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><em>The Chosen One is the second book in the Worldquake series and is published by Cannongate Books.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><em>Image and text courtesy of Cannongate<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Scarlett Thomas of the University of Kent&#8217;s School of English releases her highly anticipated second book in the Worldquake series. Effie Truelove has learned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/05\/08\/the-chosen-ones\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}