Product Description

When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself ever-lasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus's disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. And if Queen Etheldredda's plot involves Jenna and Septimus, then Dark adventure awaits With heart-stopping action and endless wit, Angie Sage continues the fantastical journey of Septimus Heap.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23450 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

About the Author
Angie Sage grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent. She went to Art School in Leicester where she studied Graphic Design and Illustration. After college she started illustrating books and then progressed to writing, first toddler books, later chapter books and now, Septimus Heap. She lives in Somerset and loves sailing her boat, Muriel, and all things to do with the sea. She has two grown-up daughters.

Customer Reviews

Physician, heal thyself - but if that fails, get some help
Fans of Magyk and Flyte will be very pleased to know that Angie Sage has done it again. Physik is the third in the young adult series about that OTHER wizard boy named Septimus Heap, and as I understand it, there will be two more books in the making. Physik is pretty long at over 500 pages, and rivals the more recent Potter books for complexity of plot, skullduggery and dark deeds.

Although the book deals with some very DARKE subject matter, Sage manages to keep it light with just the right touch of humor, juggling her characters with consummate skill, while adding her exciting new characters into the mix. In Physik, we see Septimus becoming extremely interested in the study of Alchemie, and more specifically, ancient medicines and cures as discovered by Marcellus Pye five hundred years before. This is terribly upsetting to Marcia Overstrand, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard to whom he is still apprenticed, as she'd much rather that he concentrate on studying for his Prediction exams than meddle with such "drivel".

Unfortunately for the majority of the characters, old and new, major or minor, there's a new villainess in town, and when the quite substantial ghost of the dreaded Queen Etheldredda is accidentally let loose, along with her venomous pet Aie Aie, you can make a safe bet that there's going to be lots of trouble. Coincidentally, or maybe not, a deadly "sickenesse" befalls the populace, and just at the wrong time, a young trader named Snorri (who sees dead people) arrives with not much else but her boatload of merchandise and her pet cat for protection. She soon finds herself in the middle of a time warping adventure with Septimus, Jenna and Nicko, as they muck around with not only boats, but looking glasses, fume cupboards, ancient potions, sheep bones and a flatulent dragon that needs to be in diapers. With a little help from their friends, they must get Septimus back to Marcia's for safe keeping, cure the deadly "sickenesse", and foil the evil Queen's plan for living forever.

You should be warned that the author has no misgivings about killing off a character here and there, and of course, some characters have actually been dead for centuries, but the story is so well told that the only part sure to send a shiver up your spine is the thought of the Queen's duckling a l'orange dinner. Highly recommended if you've read Magyk and Flyte, but not until then.



Amanda Richards

I want more.... please!
Oh Angie Sage does it again!!! A brand new Spetimus Heap book, it's like candy to your mind... Each and every minute spent inside it's pages are moments you will treasure forever. I am only so sad it's all at an end now (allthough dare I say the story leaves a failry good oportunity for yet another?!??)...

Packed with humour that's equally fun for young as adult, adventure and magic! This third Heap book will certainly not dissapoint you!

Physik the third Septimus Heap book
Well worth waiting for continuing the journey as apprentis wizard Septimus Heap is transported into anouther world one that happend 500 years before on the orders of an evil queen who will stop at nothing to rule forever is causing all sorts of problems in her own and Septimus's time having been releaced by Silas. She has killed her own twin daughters, and trying to kill her eldest daughter who is saved by her brother who hides her. Septimus has to work on a potion to keep the wizard alive but the queen drinks it before it is ready. Meanwhile a sickness is spreading throughout Septimus's time and although Septimus finds a cure he has to get back to his own time. Septimus's friends travel through time to find Septimus but not all will get back..Jenna uses the draggon to find Septimus with a new friend whose cat is much more than it seams and why is she here and what is she looking for. Leaves you waiting for the next book garet for children and adults alike