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From the beaches of Orkney to the Welsh mountains, and the Derbyshire peaks to the Cornish moors, Britain is home to many strange creatures of folklore. Some are ancient, as enduring as the forests and mountains they inhabit. Others live among us, in our cities, creating new legends as they scuttle through the shadows. And none of them are to be trusted.

In den Mooren Yorkshires lebt eine geheime Gruppe von Menschen, für die Bücher Nahrung sind, die alles verschlingen, was darin steht. Devon gehört dazu - bis ihr Sohn mit einer dunkleren Art von Hunger geboren wird: nicht nach den Geschichten in Büchern, sondern nach denen in den Köpfen der Menschen. Er ist ein Gedankenesser, eine 'Abart', die meist schon bei der Geburt gnadenlos getötet wird. Doch Devon schwört ihn zu retten und flieht mit ihm in die Welt der Menschen, verfolgt vom eigenen Clan und seinen schrecklichen Handlangern, den 'Rittern'.

Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends. Children are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater—a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans—she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family...or worse.

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.