Alan Skinner: 5 books

An enchanting and gripping adventure with characters you'll never forget. Jenny Swift, a young teenager, is taken against her will to become the apprentice of a famous alchemist. What awaits her is a strange world of plotting, murder, robbery,and betrayal. But she also finds friendship, courage and...

An original and brilliant take on fantasy and imagination in the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in The Willows. This is a gripping adventure fantasy filled with humour and irresistible characters set in a beautifully realised fantasy world that will enchant teens and adults alike. Fire...

When the young Myrmidot apprentices, Touch and Cres, devise a plan to harness awesome power of the blue ice, they set in motion events that will threaten the whole land. Before long, the people of the Land are divided against themselves; even the animals know that there is something dreadfully wrong,...

At the dawn of the Victorian age there was effectively no police detective force in Britain and detecting methods were rudimentary; by the end of Victoria's reign the Criminal Investigation Department had been established and basic forensic tests were in use. This book explores the development of...

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