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Jem Barbary becomes a bogler's apprentice in 1870's London and gets the fright of his life in a city where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in every alley.

3) The Last Bogler

Author

Jinks, Catherine

Series

City of orphans volume 3

Pub. Date

[2016]

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With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a boglers apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie. Its dangerous work that takes Ned into mysterious and hidden parts of the city. Yet times in London are changing; as the machine age emerges, the very existence of bogles is questioned, and the future of...