A Pack of Lies

A Pack of Lies
First edition
AuthorGeraldine McCaughrean
Cover artistRobina Green
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's novel
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
December 1988
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover, paperback)
Pages168 pp (first edition)
ISBN0-19-271612-3
OCLC17982275
LC ClassPZ7.M4784133 Pac 2009
(paperback)[1]

A Pack of Lies: twelve stories in one is a children's novel with metafictional elements, written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford in 1988. It features a family antique shop whose new salesman tells historical tales to sell antiques. The stories vary widely in type.

McCaughrean won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[2] She also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice.[3] Six books have won both awards in 45 years through 2011.[a]

Scholastic published a US edition in 1991.[4]

  1. ^ "A pack of lies" (2009 Marshall Cavendish paperback edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
    This is the only edition in the US national catalogue.
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  4. ^ "A Pack of Lies: Twelve Stories in One" (1991 Scholastic US edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 27 July 2012.


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