Synopsis: Petra can predict the future - and it's a talent that she hates. People think she's weird and she knows that if she wants any friends she'll have to keep her gift a secret. But then her visions take a sinister turn. She is plagued by the image of a girl walking her dog. And George the ghost-boy is desperately trying to give her a message. What does it all mean?

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Synopsis: Adam and Cressida Bloom embark on a perilous pursuit to stop the dastardly Talent Thief, who has stolen children’s terrific talents … This is the first novel from BAFTA award winner Alex Williams. A fast-paced adventure filled with hair-raising avalanches that is an extraordinary tale from a far-from-ordinary new talent in children’s books.

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Synopsis: Following the death of the Medusa, Corydon and the surviving monsters have lived peacefully on their island. But the Hellenic world is not prepared to leave them alone. The wise and gentle minotaur is abducted by the people of Atlantis and Corydon sets out to rescue him, accompanied by Medusa’s reckless son, Gorgos, the Snake Girl, the Hydra and the Gorgons Stheno and Eu ...

Synopsis: Clemency Pogue, former fairy killer and friend to hobgoblins, plunges herself into an adventure that could spell the doom of the world of make believe when she calls on her hobgoblin friend Chape to save her dying puppy. Chape's apprentice is a human boy who was switched at birth for a changeling forged of clay. Against all odds, his changeling has survived, a fact that co ...

Synopsis: The Strega-Borgia children are still reeling from the shock of their nanny’s disappearance at the end of Deep Trouble. Without Flora to tend to them the kids are growing up fast. Indeed, Titus is in the throes of a deeply embarrassing and magically accelerated puberty, while all around the usual chaos reigns. Baby Damp is learning to fly under the tutelage of a bat calle ...

Synopsis: The forces of evil are converging on StregaSchloss – demons, the Mafia, a changeling with a nasty bite – and the wild and weird Strega-Borgias must gather together their allies to fight back. But there are just a few too many distractions, with Damp the toddler-witch missing in action and a house full of wolves and bickering teenagers getting in the way. Can the fa ...

Synopsis: Ideal for KS 2, this is a rollicking yarn of quests, a reluctant hero, a long suffering magician, a reckless and not too clever warrior versus an evil magician and his minions. The aim is to save the people of the world and the way to do that involves a variety of adventures ably assisted by a flying horse named Pig. The tone is lighthearted, wry and humorous and is fun to rea ...

Synopsis: Alone on a wide wide sea is the story of Arthur Hobhouse who is shipped to Australia as an orphan after World War II. All he remembers of England is a sad grey day leaving Liverpool docks. The coming years in Australia test his sprit to the limit. He and his friend endure mistreatment, neglect, abuse and forced labour on a farm in the outback. But Arthur is saved again and aga ...

Synopsis: ‘Deep in the city something had been woken, so old that people had been walking past it for centuries without giving it a second look.. . .

When George breaks the head from a stone dragon he awakes an ancient power. A pterodactyl, sentry-still for hundreds of years, hunts him down with a terrifying wrath. With Edie, a glint, and Gunner, a statue of a soldier, to help him ...

Synopsis: Bartimaeus, Sakhr al-Jinni, N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes, who had spoken with Solomon and rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak and Prague...is knackered. Months of hard graft in the service of the magician John Mandrake have left his essence in tatters, just as he most needs his strength. Mandrake himself is caught up in the weary world of political mac ...