Other Sellers on Amazon
94% positive over the last 12 months
62% positive

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet or computer – no Kindle device required. Learn more
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera, scan the code below and download the Kindle app.


THE THIRTEEN SECRETS Paperback – 17 October 2019
Price | New from |
Kindle Edition
"Please retry" | — |
Hardcover
"Please retry" | ₹4,606.00 |
Paperback
"Please retry" | ₹342.00 | ₹342.00 |
Save Extra with 3 offers
10 days Replacement
Replacement Reason | Replacement Period | Replacement Policy |
---|---|---|
Physical Damage, Wrong and Missing Item, Defective | 10 days from delivery | Replacement |
Replacement Instructions

Read full returns policy
Enhance your purchase
- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster Childrens Books
- Publication date17 October 2019
- Dimensions13 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-101471183254
- ISBN-13978-1471183256
Frequently bought together
- +
- +
Customers who viewed this item also viewed
Special offers and product promotions
- 5% Instant Discount up to INR 250 on HSBC Cashback Card Credit Card Transactions. Minimum purchase value INR 1000 Here's how
- No cost EMI available on select cards. Please check 'EMI options' above for more details. Here's how
- Get GST invoice and save up to 28% on business purchases. Sign up for free Here's how
Product description
About the Author
Product details
- Publisher : Simon & Schuster Childrens Books; Reissue edition (17 October 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1471183254
- ISBN-13 : 978-1471183256
- Item Weight : 284 g
- Dimensions : 13 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
- Best Sellers Rank: #229,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,452 in Children's Traditional Stories (Books)
- #5,453 in Children's Fantasy (Books)
- #5,469 in Children's Action & Adventure
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Michelle Harrison was born in 1979 and lives in Essex. She has a son, Jack, and three cats: Marmite, Sorsha and Widdershins. Before she was published she had various jobs including working in a bar, a bakery and an art gallery, later becoming a children's bookseller at Waterstones. Prior to being a full-time writer, she worked in children's fiction at Oxford University Press.
Michelle is the author of twelve books for children and young adults, and her work has been translated into nineteen languages. Her first, The Thirteen Treasures, won the Waterstones' Children's Book Prize. The Other Alice, won the Calderdale Book of the Year Award.
Michelle is keen to promote reading for pleasure and has delivered talks and workshops in many schools, as well as speaking at high profile literary events including the Edinburgh and Hay festivals.
Website: www.michelleharrisonbooks.com
Twitter: @MHarrison13
Instagram: @elvesden
Customer reviews
-
Top reviews
Top reviews from India
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
by Michelle Harrison
Titles:
13 Treasures
13 Curses
13 Secrets
Genre:
Children's fantasy/horror
Comments:
The ideas, characters, and plot have potential. However, there is a great deal of unnecessary unpleasantness in the books. Good people are unpleasant as part of the plot, and even horridly unpleasant, when their purposes could have been achieved in more sensible ways. Too many good people die, conveying the idea that good does not necessarily triumph or, worse, that lives don't matter. There is much hyperbole, redolent of pulp fiction rather than good literature. The quality of the plot is unlikely to interest the adult and especially the discerning reader.
Top reviews from other countries



lead a pretty dull adult life and sometimes its nice to be able to escape into a magical story filled with
magical characters. I have decided (though I realise it is not possible) that I want my very own Brunswick
living in my garden!
The 13 series kind of reminds me of the magic faraway tree stories by Enid Blyton that I read over and over
again when I was kid, books I still own and read from time to time. (R J Andersons series is similar and
I love them just as much) I love all the characters so much, especially Tanya as she's the heroine and I
can sympathise so much with things she's experienced (not the being able to see faeries part I'd like to add)
but divorce and split families and secrets. I loved witnessing her grow and accept her abilities and responsibilities
throughout the 3 books, she really is a wonderful character and it is such a shame that this is the last we shall
hear about her.
I really don't like to say too much about plot in a review, otherwise whats the point in someone reading the book?
But I will say that the final battle that Tanya, her friends both human and fey and her family face is immense.
It far exceeded my expectations for this book. It really has matured as a series and I felt that the final
instalment really did it justice. I was not at all disappointed, and as sad as I am that the series is finished
I am sure I will read the books time and again and I eagerly await Michelle Harrisons next work.

I don't want to give away too much of the plot but suffice to say that you are in for a real treat. Rowan (Red) is living at Elvesden Manor and she is doing her utmost to lead a "normal" life with Tanya, Fabian and co. Of course "normality" is off the menu when you live in a fairy-infested house, fairies in the grandfather clock, a tea caddy brownie in the kitchen complete with walking stick and a drain dweller in the bathrooom whose belches smell like rotten eggs. However, Rowan is haunted by nightmares from the past and it would appear that everyone, human and fairy alike, is harbouring some sort of secret, some of which have dreadful consequences.
This is an even darker tale than the preceding novels, perhaps due to the increasing maturity of the characters who have already experienced the dark and light side of faeries. We have already seen the malevolence of the Unseelie Court, the random removal of human children replaced by changelings, the vindictive nature of Tanya's faerie guardian but things take an even more sinister turn in this volume with the battle between good and evil becoming a fight between life and death. Some scenes are reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia, especially the battle between Aslan's followers and those of the White Witch - stirring stuff which doesn't pander to those of an overly sensitive nature so expect tears amidst the smiles and rejoicing!
So, the feeling of dread has vanished but there is still some residual sadness that the 13 series is over. At least I will have the pleasure some day of reading the trilogy aloud to my daughter (who, at 7, is still at the Tinkerbell stage..) I highly recommend this whole series to children of all ages (9-99) who believe in some sort of magic and who don't automatically attribute those odd noises in the bathroom to faulty plumbing!
