Philip Reeve wins the Guardian children’s fiction prize

The recipient is to Philip Reeve for A Darkling Plain, fourth story of his Hungry Cities series. The £1,500 award is his first literary prize.

Reeve, a children’s book illustrator and author who lives with his family on Dartmoor, risked becoming a full-time writer to complete Mortal Engines, first volume of the quartet. It took him six years and won him a Whitbread prize shortlisting.

Read the Guardian Unlimited article here.