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Philip Reeve
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Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
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‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’ is out today. Our 7th Adventuremice book features ptiny pterodactyls, the fearsome Hamstersaurus rex, miniature Doug McClure-type shenanigans, and lots & lots of lovely @jabberworks illustrations! 🐭🦖🐭🦖
The cover of Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth - two mice aboard a friendly pterosaur.
October 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Quick drawings from Pembrokeshire.
4 pencil sketches of sea cliffs near Tenby.
September 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Celebrating a decade of trainsong, Hive Monks, pocket universes hidden in refreshment trolleys, etc. RAILHEAD is ten years old.
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Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social
The cover of the UK paperback edition of Railhead, published by Oxford University Press.
September 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Beautiful Japanese editions of the first two Adventuremice books by me and @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social.
Translated by Shino Watatani, published by Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo
Japanese covers for Otter Chaos and Mermouse Mystery Sarah’s picture of a mouse’s suitcase and it contents, re-used on the inner flap of Otter Chaos. The inner cover has a scroll reading ‘Adventuremice’ in English. Close up of the inner flap illustration Half title page, Otter Chaos
September 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The next Mortal Engines novel, Bridge of Storms, will be published early next year: philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/brid...
A drawing I made while writing Bridge of Storms, showing a small mobile city sheltering inside an earthwork.
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I’ll be in Edinburgh with @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social this coming Friday. Join us for Adventuremice-related malarkey if you can! @edbookfest.bsky.social
Details of our Edinburgh International Book Festival event: venue T at 13.30 on Friday 15th August.
August 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The whole Utterly Dark trilogy is available in English from @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social (covers by PaddyDonnelly). My best efforts, I think.
Covers for Utterly Dark & the Face of the Deep, & the Heart of the Wild, and & the Tides of Time, superimposed upon a spooky sea…
August 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Some reviews, for any French readers out there…
August 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Cover art by Juliette Obern for the French editions of the first two Utterly Dark books. (Utterly is called Nuit Noir in Luc Rigoreau’s translations.) Published by Gallimard Jeunesse.
Cover for Nuit Noir: Fille des Déferiantes, (showing a girl standing in a rock in a wild, green ocean) and Nuit Noir, La Legende des Bois Funestes (the same girl, looking into a dark and spooky wood).
August 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Why not take a holiday in the world of #MortalEngines this summer? ‘Thunder City’ takes you to floating seaside resorts, deadly amusement arcades, airborne spa towns, Parisian prisons and the floating pubs of Gibraltar. (And you won’t even have to leave the comfort of your sofa or sun lounger.)
Thunder City cover art by Ian McQue
August 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Top mouse movie mogul Darryl Z Cheezeburger is trying to get his new epic finished in time for the Cans Film Festival, but it’s all going Horribly Wrong. Can the Adventuremice help? Or will they just get in the way? MICE, CAMERA, ACTION! by me and @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social is out this very week!
Illustration of a furious film directing mouse by Sarah McIntyre The Cans Film Festival, held in a load of old tin cans which mice have turned into a cinema. Illustration by Sarah McIntyre Back cover of Mice, Camera, Action! Front cover of Mice, Camera, Action!, featuring a rampaging YET ADORABLE Baby Otter.
March 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Scots pines near Burrator
A photo of some Scots pines near Burrator, Dartmoor.
January 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Hisley Bridge yesterday
Photo of a mediaeval packhorse bridge over the river Bovey, in woods on the eastern edge of Dartmoor.
December 20, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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All-new adventures in the world of #MortalEngines, if you’re stuck for presents for the science fantasy fan in your life. Futuristic gladiators! Motorised cities! A small cat! And more! Published by Scholastic in the UK and US.
December 16, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Two delightful Christmas trees at Canada Hill School. @jabberworks
December 13, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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Mushrooms by a little waterfall at Bonehill.
December 5, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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Around Hound Tor with Poodle and Smartphone.
4 photos of Hound Tor (a large granite outcrop on Dartmoor)
November 28, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Tree study from last year.
A pen drawing of a gnarled tree growing out of a granite wall on Dartmoor.
November 27, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Some afternoon sun in the woods.
November 26, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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You are brave and sensible and have an excellent hat!
November 23, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Important QUIZ ⬇️
A ‘Which Reeve & McIntyre Character Are You?’ multiple choice quiz from our activity book ‘Pug-A-Doodle-Do’ (now sadly out of print).
November 23, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Sno.
4 views of snowy Dartmoor in afternoon sunshine.
November 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Winter arrives on Dartmoor.
Bonehill rocks under a light dusting of snow.
November 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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👋 Hello new followers! As well as writing books I occasionally make films. Here’s the first, ‘Gwenevere’ a 30-min Arthurian epic full of Dartmoor landscapes and low-budget magic. Starring @laurafrancesmartin.bsky.social

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4 stills from Gwenevere, featuring characters in mediaeval costume in misty woods, and walking past a moorland pool at sunset.
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Deep England today.
November 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM