“Gentlemen!” William McAdam addressed the room, a knife in each hand. “Your watches, please! I guarantee you the fastest amputation ever performed anywhere in the world…”
Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his world is turned on its head when a failed break-in at his master’s house sets off a strange and disturbing series of events that involves grave robbing, body switching … and murder. Sparky, persuasive young Loveday Finch, daughter of the late Mr Charles Finch, magician, employs Ezra to investigate her father’s death - and there are marked similarities between his corpse and the others. The mystery takes Ezra and Loveday from the Operating Theatre at St Bart’s to the desolate wasteland of Coldbath Fields; from the streets of Clerkenwell to the dark, damp vaults of Newgate Prison; and finally to the shadowy and forbidding Ottoman Embassy, which seems to be the key to it all…
The Van Go family are on a whirlwind adventure! Setting out in their beloved blue van, they venture across the world, taking in the sights and trying out a wide range of vehicles from tuk tuks to big red buses.
Twelve-year-old farm boy Benedict Dingle Flint is more of a dreamer than a fighter. But when he's blown up, that all changes! He becomes Firebrand Flint, an accidental real-life hero who, together with his best friend Alfie, joins the British Resistance and takes on the Nazis. The Bandits' motto? Never say die, the war's not over yet.
Team Veritas are back at Bletchley Park where a secret message hidden in a Shakespeare Portfolio pulls them into a new code-cracking adventure. Their investigations lead them to the writings of Sir Francis Bacon. Soon, they uncover the history of the Knights of Neustria, a brotherhood that goes back to the time of King Arthur charged with protecting a legendary secret.
But are they any closer to their goal - to unravel the secret behind the ancient coded Voynich Manuscript?
The stakes are getting higher as our young trio chase their quest from Cambridge to a terrifying struggle along the currents of the surging River Wye. Only one step behind them is the secret organisation who will stop at nothing to block them from discovering the truth ...
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'This gripping thriller ... will have you on the edge of your seats.' TBK Magazine
Secret agent Zak Darke is back for his third mission - and the stakes have never been higher.
An unknown bomber is conducting a terror campaign in London. After an explosion on the tube leaves someone dead, Zak and his team are brought in to try and work out how this terror cell operates - but clues are scarce and they have no idea where, or when, the bomber will strike next. A teenage boy, currently detained in a young offender's institute, claims he has the answer - but before Zak can question him, the boy is shot and falls into a coma. Will Zak be able to break the cipher before the bomber strikes again?
This is a story about a group of children and their dogs on an outing. But what starts out as a peaceful Summer morning stroll, soon ends up as a slippery wild goose chase.
The crazy scientist Dr Hed Case demands that the government give him twenty million pounds by midnight or he will send a super storm to destroy London. Time's running out for Tribe.
'A truly epic finale to one of the best trilogies of recent years' KIRAN MILLWOOD-HARGRAVE
'Magical in every way' EOIN COLFER, author of Artemis Fowl
Fionn Boyle, Storm Keeper of Arranmore, is facing the fight of his life.
The terrifying all-powerful sorceress Morrigan has been raised from the dead and has sealed off the island from all help.
Fionn is the only thing that stands between her and a dark future.
He’s got to find a way to defeat her.
But there are some terrible choices in store for Fionn as the dark sorcerer begins to take his nearest and dearest for her own. With only two candles left to burn, will Fionn master his powers in time to stop her?
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The highly-anticipated epic finale to the bestselling Storm Keeper trilogy is everything fans could have dreamed of...
Set in a world where plants talk, friendship is hard-won
and adventure is around the bend of every river ...
'Townsend has crafted an uncannily rich and tactile atmosphere,
grounding the reader in the setting so successfully that I
could almost feel the river mist settling in my hair.' SARAH
DRIVER
'Just finished this breathless marvel and there's so much
to love about it. Wild and imaginative storytelling, it introduces
us to talking oaks, poisonous rock and a central character with
a lot to prove.' FLEUR HITCHCOCK
Orla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her beloved
garden for company. When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orla
knows she must find a cure.
Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she steals
away on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana.
Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonous
place from which they may never return ...
The debut novel from an astonishingly talented new writer
A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turn
with authentic details of the natural world
A gorgeous gifty book: a flapped paperback with illustration
by Marie-Alice Harel.
