My name is Simon Spittle and I think - no, I know, I murdered Miss Belcher. I don't carry a gun. Or a knife. Or even a toothpick, but yesterday, in French, I wished for her to be run over by a bus and, later that very day, she was. A big, red double-decker with yellow wheels and a picture of a clown on the bonnet. A Billy Smart's Circus bus.
Simon is very different to Isabella. He is all elbowy and clumsy. She, on the other hand, is elegant and cool. He's the school chess champ and has the IQ of a chemistry professor. She thinks flowers grow...
WINNER OF THE 2014 UK PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE
My name is Simon Spittle and I think - no, I know, I murdered Miss Belcher. I don't carry a gun. Or a knif...
My name is Tiffany Sparrow and my job is to slay spooks. It can be messy work, but I enjoy it. Mostly. I get to do a lot of travelling which is fun, but often just to crumbling tombs and spidery cellars. My mum was a slayer too; and so was my grandmother. I miss them terribly. They were killed, you see, by Grimdorf the warlock, so now there's only me and my old grandad left. But the word on Voodoo street is... GRIMDORF'S BACK And he's brought a few of his pals with him.
'WONDERFUL PENMANSHIP' Tons of Fun
'Tiffany is the sort of girl every girl wants to be. Cool, funny and a...
My name is Tiffany Sparrow and my job is to slay spooks. It can be messy work, but I enjoy it. Mostly. I get to do a lot of travelling which is fun, b...
BILLY BOB BUTTONS WAS THE WINNER OF THE UK PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE (CHILDREN'S CATEGORY)
"The Wishing Shelf is not just a magic bookshop, and it is not just the doorway to hundreds of magical lands; it is, most importantly, the prison to the most powerful and dangerous book ever penned." Galibrath Falafel, Wizard
'Down some steps, below a crumbling bridge, sits a scruffy old bookshop.'
Let the struggle begin.
The day Felicity Brady discovers The Wishing Shelf, a magic bookshop in the small town of Twice Brewed, is the day her life is altered forever.
A helpful clock and a mulish door...
BILLY BOB BUTTONS WAS THE WINNER OF THE UK PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE (CHILDREN'S CATEGORY)
"The Wishing Shelf is not just a magic bookshop, and it is not ...
"If you don't go, Felicity; if you don't get Articulus back, there will be a terrible war in this land." The gargoyle rested his claw on her shoulder. "Galibrath left the book to you and now it is up to you to find it and return it to The Wishing Shelf. Remember, in the wrong hands it could destroy...everything."
'The story telling skills of J K Rowling and the wit of Roald Dahl.' Bookbuzz
'Spellbinding ' Kicks4kidz
'Charming Made me wish I was young so I could find a magic bookshop of my own.' Kidsbookshelf
'A fantasitc adventure.' Teanreads
'Brilliant ' SciFi Books
"If you don't go, Felicity; if you don't get Articulus back, there will be a terrible war in this land." The gargoyle rested his claw on her shoulder....
The year is 1870. Major Tor, a mercenary and deadly sniper, is called from battle to stop Locust, a SWARM assassin who is plotting to murder the King of Sweden.
From the rubble and watery craters of France to the shadowy corridors of Stockholm's old castle, Tor must discover who the assassin is and put a stop to his, or her plan to throw a country into a barbaric and bloody war.
Accompany him if you dare into a world of bayonets and bullets, where the enemy's sword is forever chasing your shadow.
But remember this, when you hunt assassins...
...trust nobody.
TOR ASSASSIN HUNTER is...
The year is 1870. Major Tor, a mercenary and deadly sniper, is called from battle to stop Locust, a SWARM assassin who is plotting to murder the King ...
