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Pushkin Children's to reissue Jarvis' 'spine-tingling' 90s fantasy series
Pushkin Children’s will reissue Robin Jarvis’ dark middle-grade fantasy series The Deptford Mice Trilogy, originally published in the 1990s.
Commissioning editor Daniel Seton acquired world English rights from Philippa Milnes-Smith at The Soho Agency. The three books will be "freshly" edited and updated with new illustrations and cover artwork by Jarvis. The Dark Portal, the first in the series, will be published in March 2024 with the second book, The Crystal Prison, following in June 2024. The last instalment, The Final Reckoning, in September 2024.
The series is about a magical world of mice and rats in the sewers of London and beyond.
Seton said: "I absolutely loved these thrillingly scary books as a boy. They are such brilliantly imaginative stories, filled with a spine-tingling atmosphere of magic, mystery and menace. I read them over and over again as a kid and am so excited to be working with Robin to introduce them to a new generation of children."
Jarvis added: "When Pushkin Children’s first approached me, saying they wanted to reissue the Deptford Mice, I was naturally delighted. The love and enthusiasm their team has for those books is amazing and exciting. It’s very rare for an author to be given the opportunity to go back 35 years and give their first published work a thorough dusting, but that’s what I wanted to do. So, I was over the moon when Pushkin let me polish and refresh the trilogy for a new generation, and stuff it with far more new illustrations than they asked for. For that, me (and the mice) are eternally grateful."
