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The Dark Lord of Derkholm

by Diana Wynne Jones - £7.99  HarperCollins Publishers (2013)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780007507573 | ISBN 10: 0007507577

A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats... tourism .
 
Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1999.
 
In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy cliches - Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons etc. The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem being the ruthless tour-master - and his all-powerful demons.To save them all, the incompetent wizard Derk is appointed as Dark Lord in the hope that he will ruin the tours, and sure enough proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness.
 
Recommended for readers aged 11+
 
But can failing at everything lead to a win this time?

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