Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick

Sedgwick’s admiration for Ransome is clear from the outset and bolstered by appended notes about where the novel dovetails with and diverges from real-life history. The rest of the novel, written in episodic vignettes, is more straightforward in painting a man whose attachment to Russia seemingly stems from the love of the woman who would eventually become his second wife. It fell like brown snow, but each flake was a person”). The first section sets the scene of the social and political landscape leading up to the revolution Sedgwick uses vivid, fairy tale imagery to describe historical events, such as a bear that represents the growing discontent among the Russian populace (“The bear, which by now was as large as the cathedral on Catherine’s canal, rose on its hind legs. This is the story of one man who was there. Marko and Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time. Marcus Sedgwick’s tale of Venice and vampires is a captivating companion volume to the bestselling My Swordhand is Singing.

1 It was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award. Blood Red, Snow White (2007) The Kiss of Death (2008) Revolver (2009) White Crow (2010) Midwinterblood (2011) Dark Satanic Mills (2013). It is a novel set during the Russian Revolution, a fictionalised account of the time the author Arthur Ransome spent in Russia. Blood Red Snow White, a Soviet-era thriller from renowned author Marcus Sedgwick, is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats. Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. Blood Red, Snow White is a historical novel by Marcus Sedgwick published in 2007. These stories, coupled with Ransome’s involvement in the Russian revolution as a journalist, inspired this multifaceted historical novel, written in three parts and originally published in 2007. Marcus Sedgwick: Release: 25 October 2016: Audience: Young adult: Publisher: Roaring Brook Press: ISBN: 9781626725485. British children’s book author Arthur Ransome captured Printz-winner Sedgwick’s ( Midwinterblood) imagination with his 1916 book, Old Peter’s Russian Tales.

Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick