BOOK DESCRIPTION For 9-12 year-old children (and adults), Mighty Matilda and the Missing Crown Jewels is a fast-moving comedy-thriller set in London at the end of this century. History, tradition and technology collide and orphaned, tiara-trash Princess Matilda battles the evil prime minister to save the country and redeem herself. FROM THE BACK COVER Matilda is twelve and will one day have the most boring job in the world. What's the point of being Queen at the end of the 21st-century? It's a joke job and she won't do it. Any wazzo can wave their hand. This makes her dad, the King, do his...

"Full of wit, pathos, humour and a sharp incisiveness.." Liverpool Sound & Vision. "People's Poet is rhyming again...packed with light-hearted comic verses on subjects from apostrophes to upside-down mystics.." Liverpool Echo Welcome to a world of tight-fisted Romans, upside-down mystics and one swingin' Buddha. In these funny, thoughtful and sometimes moving poems, Tony O'Neill takes a lopsided view of life, including shedding some welcome light on the great buttons vs zipper debate. A first collection from the official People's Poet of Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture.