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Time travel. Nobody really believes in it, but when Claire, Gerald and Wally wake to find themselves trapped in a strange, glass dome, they’re forced to face the fact that a) it exists and b) there’s stranger still to come.   Lifted from a place of danger, somehow each have been...

Laughing Jack, the most merciless of pirates, kidnaps unloved children. Ancell, a timid, dreaming hedgehog, learns he is the only one who can rescue them. No heroic adventurer, Ancell discovers to his dismay that only he can rescue the children who have been kidnapped by the terrifying pirate, Laughing...

Following a mental breakdown, archaeologist Emma Carter convalesces in a rest home. Thoughts return to her childhood and to a windswept beach where she discovered a priceless gold artefact – an ugly gargoyle figure known as a Shiel Na Gig, representing a long forgotten deity from antiquity. She...

Introducing David Lewelyn. He can read your mind. No, not really. But he does know when you’re lying. He’s a lie hunter. You can keep your face as still as wall. You can stiffen yourself like a corpse. You can shut your mouth tight. It won’t matter, because he’ll know. You can’t hide the...

A gruesome murder four years earlier, in La Santé prison in Paris, casts a long shadow over the lives of many people. Chief Inspector Maigret of Police Nationale is one of them. It is such a painful subject that he refuses to discuss it. In the present time, Max, almost fourteen, who knows nothing...

Kyp Finnegan is lost in Chimera after running away from the imposters pretending to be his parents. Chimera is as remarkable as it is dangerous - a fantastical world of lost properties in which bowties evolve into butterflies and abandoned sofas transform into snorting herds of soffalos! With the...

Kyp Finnegan’s adventures in Chimera continue, as an unexpected turn of events forces him to make a dangerous alliance with an old foe. New enemies abound, as Kyp confronts a vengeful ventriloquist dummy and does battle with hordes of human-hating mannequins. As loyalties change and secrets are revealed, Kyp will find something precious in Chimera, but he will lose everything too…

Bloody Flies is a sequence of episodes that offer glimpses of expat life in the opening decade of the 21st century, and the shifting morals that occur when Middle East meets West. After the death of Leo’s father, Leo and Diana Hunter move, with their children Laura, Ian and Charlie, to materialistic...

The Pirate Ship is an exciting fantasy adventure story for young readers, inspired by the pirate ship in the Princess of Wales’ Memorial Playground in Kensington. Corin and Carly play on their favourite pirate ship, then Corin climbs up one of the stilt houses and later escapes into the park outside....

The third book in the ‘Out of Time’ series, which pitches a bunch of modern-day youngsters against the secrets of the past. It started as normal day, but ended by throwing Rob headlong into the past, where he becomes entwined in the quest to save an ancient chalice. He is plunged into the midst...

He could save the world, or destroy it… The virus that has swept the Earth hasn’t consumed Tommy, yet, but as his hunger for human flesh takes hold, his humanity vanishes behind the bloodlust of an infected. It’s up to seventeen year old Alyx and her friends to find answers. But saving...

Rebecca’s life takes a dramatic turn one summer. When she loses her beloved Granddad, she takes solace in visiting the places they used to go. Exploring one of her favourite places, Furness Abbey, with her friends one day leads to adventures beyond their wildest dreams. The youngsters find themselves...

Gulliver has never travelled outside Devon. He only knows his antique emporium, filled with dusty old grandfather clocks, brass telescopes and antique globes from the 17th century among other things. Dreaming of maps that lead to national treasures, he longs to go on an adventure. Then one day, in...

Meet Vincent: a young boy from Holland with big dreams.  Fortuneless and out of favour with just about everybody, Vincent discovers that he can escape if he only uses his powerful imagination. Sometimes his mind would wander so far, Vincent got lost. Not only did he get lost in the palette...