The sleepless Robert was gazing out the window when he saw and helps the agitated Malkin to contact Lily concerning enemies-including her untrustworthy guardian-who are seeking Professor Hartman’s innovations. Malkin survives an attack-related airship accident that has seemingly claimed its secretive inventor Professor John Hartman-he is Robert’s trainer-who wants Malkin to reach out to her child Lily who later on realizes she is a half human, half automaton. Named after a character’s cog implant, Cogheart’s protagonists are: a guardian foxy automaton called Malkin a steampunk inventor’s daughter called Lily, aged eleven and a boyish go-between named Robert whose mother’s whereabouts are unknown. It is originally dated September 1, 2016, and set in the 1896 London. The multi-translated book’s foreign editions include Inimă cu cheiță (Romanian), Kugghjärtat (Swedish), Det mekaniske hjerte (Danish), Besmrtno srce (Serbian), and Mechanické srdce (Czech). His literary works are based on his imagination of the social impact of emotionally intelligent automatons.Ĭogheart is Bunzl’s first book in Cogheart Adventures series. Pre-Victorian automatons inspired Bunzl’s Cogheart Adventures series, whose first instalment doubles up as his debut.

Bunzl, whose literary agent is Jo Williamson, specializes with the steampunk and juvenile literature niches.īunzl credits his storytelling background-including scriptwriting occupation and writing diaries, poems and short stories since he was aged around ten-for his easy transition to authorship, despite his initial false start. He pursued filmmaking and animation in various institutions, including the University of Surrey and is an alumnus of National Film and Television School, wherein he has a master’s degree in animation.īunzl’s numerous influences include: British authors Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, and Sir Philip Pullman the comic works of Quentin Blake and Carl Barks and French authors Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.

A former TV producer who has had freelance animator stints, Bunzl attended Alleyn’s School for his basic education. Cogheart Adventures is a literary series by Londoner Peter Bunzl (1975-).

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