Compass Murphy
No. of pages 352
Published: 2004
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This book is part of a book series called The Running Tide .
There are 352 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 2004 by Egmont UK Ltd .
Stephen Potts won considerable critical acclaim for his Running Tide trilogy. His writing is achingly poetic, picking up on details and emotion that would often escape notice.
This book is in the following series:
The Running Tide
The Running Tide is a set of three books consisting of The Ship Thief , Compass Murphy and Hunting Gumnor. Each of them is a stand-alone adventure story, and they can be read in any order. You don't need to know what happens in one book to understand the next one. There are different characters at the centre of each book, but some, who might be children or young adults in one story, return as adults or old people in another. All of the stories feature the sea, whether it is the icy Arctic of the mid 19th century (Compass Murphy) the stormy North Pacific off Gold Rush Alaska (The Ship Thief) or the kinder coast of modern Britain (Hunting Gumnor). And there are boats and animals galore!
