''The New Policeman'' is a children's

fantasy novel Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fa ...

by Kate Thompson, published by Bodley Head in 2005. Set in

Kinvara Kinvara or Kinvarra () is a sea port village in the southwest of County Galway, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of Kinvarradoorus in the north of the barony of Kiltartan. Kinvarra is also an electoral division. Geography The vil ...

, Ireland, it features a teenage boy, J. J. Liddy, who learns that "time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies". It inaugurated a series that is sometimes called Liddy. Thompson and ''The New Policeman'' won two important annual awards, the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award was a literary award that annual recognised one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. It was conferred upon the author ...

. The novel also won the inaugural Irish BA Award for Children's Books in 2006.

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News ...

published the first U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint in February 2007. A Chinese-language edition was published in 2008 with illustrations and music.''Xun zhao shi jian de ren''
(first Chinese edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-01.

Series

There are three novels in the Liddy series, summing more than 1100 pages in their first editions. * ''The New Policeman'' (Bodley Head, May 2005, 0-370-32823-X) * ''The Last of the High Kings'' (Bodley Head, June 2007, 0-370-32925-2) * ''The White Horse Trick'' (Red Fox, April 2010, 978-1-86230-941-8) As of September 2011, HarperCollins/Greenwillow has published U.S. editions of all three.

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* —immediately, first US edition * {{DEFAULTSORT:New Policeman 2005 British novels Irish young adult novels Irish children's literature Irish fantasy Novels set in Ireland Time in fiction The Bodley Head books Costa Book Award-winning works Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning works County Galway 2005 children's books