Red Panda Press: 13 books

Henry Harrison is twelve-years-old and something of a minor tearaway. He is also, quite incorrectly, the prime suspect of the armed robbery of a market trader and, as the novel begins, on the run from the law. Anxious to clear his name, he finds midnight sanctuary, illegally, in the home of...

A serial killer is on the loose in Northern England, arrogantly discarding his many victims like so much garbage in the countryside and meres of the beautiful, but wild and often lonely English Lake District. Detective Chief Inspector Kate Hoagan is charged with stopping the murders by bringing the...

The Carrington children are on holiday in the English Lake District when they discover an injured badger cub lying in a ditch. The animal is cared for by their host, the owner of their holiday home and a former vet. When the injured beast is at last ready to be returned to the wild, the children learn...

The second book in the Charlie Braithwaite series finds our young English hero at home in his bedroom. It is a boring, wet afternoon, when suddenly his old friend the arch wizard Argetlám appears on his computer screen. At first delighted by the return of his friend, he soon discovers that the wizard...

Always fascinated by magic, eleven year old Charlie Braithwaite buys a book of wizardry from the village hall bring and buy sale. It is an old book, written hundreds of years before he was even born and as soon as he takes the volume home he sets out to discover if the spells it contains really do...

Set in the English Lake District, Abigail, Imogen and Ross, the young heroes of the story, are enjoying a well-deserved holiday when they accidentally become involved with a group of drug smugglers. The smugglers, a far from friendly group of men, have a hideout in the workings of a long disused copper-mine...

A collection of thought-provoking short stories that range from travelling backwards in time to find a bride to discovering your girlfriend's father is about to assist an alien takeover of the planet.

Former star ship commander, Captain Benjamin David Grayling, is in trouble. His outspoken views on the criminally despotic leadership of the United Coalition of Planets have resulted in his life-exile to Draxos-III, the planetary home of an infamous penal colony where a prisoner’s life is no longer...

Charlie Frank is middle-aged, out of work and for the first time in his life, in trouble with the law. To makes matters worse, his octogenarian father is arrested for mooning out of a bus window and his wife, who no longer loves him, is going through a mid-life crisis. Then he meets and falls in love...

The McEndrick Option is a fast-moving, psychological and political thriller featuring Len Cooke’s maverick Cumbrian police heroine – Kate Hoagan. It is now 1995 and Detective Superintendent Kate Hoagan, the no-nonsense, invariably cynical and iconoclastic Cumbrian detective, is back; investigating...

The long-awaited sequel to 'The Theft of the Crown of Bodran'. Enraged by the loss of the stolen crown, the seriously unpleasant giant – Botan, who was so cleverly duped by Charlie and his friends when they retrieved King Bodran's treasured crown, is back, and this time, meaner than ever, he wants revenge!

A magical adventure story featuring the English schoolboy Charlie Braithwaite as, with the friends he made in the adventure 'The Witches of Lewthan Mountain', he once again sets off to the witch infested Darklands in search of a thief and an elfin king's quite priceless, stolen crown

Set in the England of the 1950’s, September is a period love story with a strong element of the supernatural. Start time – 1950. Location – The English Lake District. Calum Lachlan, a 40-year-old bachelor, landowner and hero of World War Two, is driving along a lonely Lakeland...