Inkheart #4: Inkheart 4: The Colour of Revenge New Award-winning author by Cornelia Funke (author)

A brilliant new stand-alone novel that returns to the
beloved world of the Inkheart trilogy – over 14 million
copies sold worldwide and now on Netflix!
’It’s great to have this wonderful writer back on our
shelves.’ DAVID ALMOND

After five happy years, Meggie, her father Mo and the fire-eater
Dustfinger, along with a host of new friends, feel safe and settled.

But arch-villain Orpheus has found an unexpected way to wreak
his revenge on the Inkworld!

He has corrupted an artist to create bewitched portraits that
will see the heroes fade to grey – Dustfinger, his brave stepson,
Jehan, and his enigmatic friend Lilia, must come together
to find a way to save them all!

This is the Colour of Revenge . . .

Features gorgeous new illustrations from Cornelia Funke
herself.

Cornelia Funke is the critically-acclaimed, internationally
bestselling author of Dragon Rider and The
Thief Lord.

Inkheart is a major feature film, currently
streaming on Netflix, from the makers of The Lord
of the Rings, starring Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany and Brendan
Fraser!

PRAISE FOR THE INKHEART SERIES:

‘I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that conveys
so well the joys, terrors and pitfalls of reading’
DIANA WYNNE JONES, author of Howl’s Moving Castle

‘One of the outstanding children’s novels of the year.’
THE TIMES

‘A breathtakingly fast-moving tale.’ THE INDEPENDENT

‘… a rollicking good tale that pulls you swiftly through
its pages.’ THE TELEGRAPH

Product Details

Catalogue number

622 in Setanta Teen October 2025, 715 in Setanta SCB September 2025 and 3043 in Schools Catalogue 2025/26

Series

Inkheart (book 4)

ISBN

9781915947611

Publisher

Chicken House Ltd

Date published

April 10th, 2025

Other details

352 pages

Condition

New

Available in these packs

5books
Fiction for Ages 9-11: Encourage a Love of Reading Collection (5 Book Set)

New

eur prices

Offer price: €39.90

Rewards/RRP: €60.20

Part of this Series

Inkheart

Author/Illustrator

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke is the hugely successful author of the Inkheart Trilogy, The Thief Lord and a whole host of other popular children’s novels and picture books. She was born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten. After finishing her studies, Cornelia worked for three years as a social worker. For a while she illustrated books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the tales that had appealed to the children she had worked with.

During the late 1980s and the 1990s, she established herself in Germany with two children’s series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Her international break-through came with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider (1996), which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 weeks, and was continued with The Thief Lord (2000, translated into English in 2002), which immediately climbed to the #2 position of the New York Times bestseller list, stayed there for 19 weeks and sold 1.5 million copies.

Her follow-up novel was Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award. Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Cornelia her second BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award (2006). The trilogy concluded with Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, England in Spring 2008, USA Autumn 2008). Inkheart the movie was also released in 2008 and starred Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren and Paul Bettany.

Cornelia’s brand new novel Reckless is released worldwide on September 14th 2010.