Johnny Sanderson: 2 books

Hobo the Halfwit was living a happy life of sloth and gluttony until Greatoaf the wizard talked him into an all-male, treasure-stealing, dragon-fighting adventure with the cowardly gnomes of The Slightly Depressed Hill.

British prime minister Hugh Sedgewick owes millions of pounds to a warlord from Afghanistan after bribing the Olympik Fatcats Committee to host the next Games. North London newspaper editor Harry Tyburn cares little for Sedgewick’s cash-or-death dilemma but finds himself caught up in a government...