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Cover artist Paul Hess Language English Publication date May 2005 Originally published May 2005 Publisher The Bodley Head | 3.6/5 Goodreads Country United Kingdom Series Liddy Pages 407 pp (first edition) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by The Last of the High Kings Genres Novel, Fantasy, Children's literature, Speculative fiction Awards Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Bisto Book of the Year, Bisto Merit Awards Similar The Beguilers, Annan Water, The Last of the High Kings, The White Horse Trick, Creature of the Night | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The New Policeman is a children's fantasy novel by Kate Thompson, published by Bodley Head in 2005. Set in Kinvara, Ireland, it features a teenage boy, J. J. Liddy, who learns that "time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies". It inaugurated a series that is sometimes called Liddy.
Thompson and The New Policeman won two important annual awards, the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
The novel also won the inaugural Irish BA Award for Children's Books in 2006.
HarperCollins published the first U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint in February 2007.
A Chinese-language edition was published in 2008 with illustrations and music.
Series
There are three novels in the Liddy series, summing more than 1100 pages in their first editions.
As of September 2011, HarperCollins/Greenwillow has published U.S. editions of all three.