This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 384 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2005 by Allen & Unwin .

Lilli Thal, historian and novelist, established herself on the German children's book market with her prize-winning series of humorous crime stories about Inspector Pillermeier. In Mimus she leads her readers into the dark and colourful Middle Ages. Lilli Thal lives in Southern Germany with her husband, two children and a dog. About the translator:. John Brownjohn has translated many books and screenplays into English from German and French and has been much praised for his deft and elegant use of language: 'seamless and idiomatic, without a single clumsy construction. It's a remarkable achievement to sustain a breakneck pace and never once sound as if the book were written in anything other than English'.