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Thirteen-year-old Jackson Naylor’s life is being ruined by bullying. Then, one day, he receives a gift from his grandfather, a wrist-worn device called Archie, whose magical powers introduce Jackson, often hilariously, to the secret world of goblins, an overfriendly and always hungry tiger called Boris, and the truly awesome, life-changing power...

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 has a job for him that is both extremely...

‘THE REVENGE OF BOTAN THE BONE CRUSHER’



Reading Age: 9-12
Approx. word count: 36,000



Following on from The Theft of the Crown of Bodran, this sequel deals with the attempted revenge of the awesomely unpleasant giant – Botan, who was so cleverly duped by Charlie and his friends when they retrieved King Bodran’s stolen crown.

After finding...

The Theft of the Crown of Bodran


Reading age - 8-12 years

Estimated word count – 35,000

Charlie is in class, listening to a boring geography lesson when his old friend, Argetlám the wizard, suddenly appears before him. Invisible to both Charlie’s teacher and the rest of the class, the wizard quickly tells his young friend that the much...

The Ghosts of Badger Wood

The story, which is suitable for all children from the age of 8 to 80, is one of old-fashioned decency confronting an extremely evil group of far from decent, modern thugs. It doing so, it tells of a most unusual joint venture between the police service and a bizarre group of long-forgotten war heroes, men who most...

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 retired professor of physics, but rather than...

‘Drop Zone’

by

R.M. McLeod

Anticipated reading age: 8-11

Length: circa 20,000 words.

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 WITCHES OF LEWTHAN
MOUNTAIN’


Reading age: 8-12

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...