As I announced last week, The Kidnapped Prince, the Volume 2 omnibus of my Archibald Lox series, collecting books 4, 5 and 6, will go on sale worldwide on Monday, November 1st, as a nice, hefty eBook, Hardback, and Paperback.

Since I made that announcement, the book has been feeding out online to the various stores where it will be sold, so if you'd like to pre-order it now, you can (except for the paperback, which I can't make available for pre-order).

If you'd like to pre-order the eBook, which is a third cheaper than if you were to separately buy the three books that it contains ($5.99, £4.99, our your local equivalent), you can get it from the following stores:

Amazon: http://mybook.to/ArchieVol2omnibusEbook

Apple, Nook, Kobo: https://books2read.com/u/bwaOMy

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Darren_Shan_Archibald_Lox_Volume_2?id=Z8hGEAAAQBAJ

At the moment you can only pre-order the hardback through Amazon stores across the world (and even some of them aren't currently showing it as a pre-order), but it should be available through lots more stores by its time of publication, such as Barnes & Noble in the USA, or Waterstones or WHSmith in the UK. (It won't be on the shelves, but you should be able to order it through their online sites, or ask staff to get in a copy for you.) I'm hoping it will, at some point, sell at a big discount through Amazon and Book Depository, but I have no control over the prices that they offer it at, so if you're looking to get the hardback at a bargain price, you'll need to keep checking on those stores once it goes on sale.

Amazon: http://mybook.to/ArchieVol2hardback

As I said, I won't be able to make the paperback available until the date that it goes on sale (it will be on sale exclusively through Amazon), but the upside for those of you who want to get it in that format is that I will probably release it a few days before the other formats, so keep checking the last week in October if you want to sneak in ahead of the crowds!! :-)

For more info about Archibald Lox, along with all the latest Darren Shan news and updates, see the October issue of the Shanville Monthly: https://darrenshan.com/news/shanville-monthly