Chop-chop, Mad Cap!
Meet Madgie M. Cappock, also known as Mad Cap, of the Rent-a-Hero agency – no job too big or small. In this, the first book in the Mad Cap series, Madgie and her partner in crime Norbert Soup follow...
View ArticleBartolomé: The Infanta's Pet
17th-century Madrid is not a kind place for a dwarf like Bartolomé, and his family has to keep him hidden in a small back room. His dream is to be able to read and write, and when he hears that a...
View ArticleThe Nightmare Club: The Wolfling's Bite
Welcome to the Nightmare Club, the sleepover that is definitely not for wimps. Annie Graves is your host, and she only invites guests who can tell really creepy stories. Jessie was nuts about her...
View ArticleThe Nightmare Club: Frankenkids
Welcome to the Nightmare Club, the sleepover that is definitely not for wimps. Annie Graves is your host, and she only invites guests who can tell really creepy stories. You’ve heard of Dr...
View ArticleThe History Mystery
Sonia, Pedro and their classmates are baffled. Mysterious messages keep popping up on their computers, on their mobile phones, on websites they visit, even on a radio programme they listen to. It is...
View ArticleThe Cryptid Files: Pacific Giants
When Vanessa travels to a remote island off the coast of Canada, she finds herself drawn into a world of ruthless whale hunters and criminals. Armed only with her camera and her faithful shrunken...
View ArticleImproper Order
It’s all most improper. Ciara has stopped eating her hair and is practically married to Syzmon. Even Ella has fallen for someone who is not a cat or a ferret. And Joel and Kevin are going for coffee...
View ArticleThe Nightmare Club: The Demon Babysitter
Dervla is the babysitter from hell – literally. She's very strict, she eats spiders, and ... are those horns? No wonder Becky is everybody's hero when she manages to rid the neighbourhood of the demon...
View ArticleWormwood Gate
Aisling and Julie are bickering when they are almost run over by a white horse with a red mane. Something strange is going on: the city looks changed; three castles for three Queens blaze on the...
View ArticleToo Many Ponies
Rosevale is a sanctuary for abandoned and abused horses, but Aidan’s family can’t afford to run it any longer. If Rosevale closes down, though, what is going to happen to all the horses that are...
View ArticleThe Keeper
Oisín is not sure he wants to be Keeper of the Book of Magic – but when his little sister Sorcha is kidnapped by the Morrígan, a raven-goddess with a heart as dark as her feathers, he has to learn how...
View ArticleThe Powers
Poor Suzie – Dad has set the kitchen on fire again and Mum has turned the rain on indoors to douse the flames. JP has flown straight into a wall, and the dog, Pucker, is a whirlwind of paws and ears...
View ArticleThe Nightmare Club 8: The Hatching
So what is the most innocent, least spooky thing you can imagine? An egg, right? Right. It’s perfectly smooth all over. It’s totally natural. It can’t talk. It can’t put a curse on you. It doesn’t...
View ArticleFennymore and the Brumella
Eleven-year-old Fennymore lives alone in an old house with only a magical bike for company. After his great-aunt dies, Fennymore sets off with his new friend Fizzy to find his parents, who have...
View ArticleAlexandra
Four very short stories about the everyday life of a little girl. Alexandra’s adventures include changing her name, bedtime fears and a plaster disaster. These warm stories by Ireland’s first...
View ArticleFionnuala
Four very short stories about the everyday life of a little girl. Alexandra’s adventures include changing her name, bedtime fears and a plaster disaster. These warm stories by Ireland’s first...
View ArticleBalaclava Boy
Everyone is a bit surprised and a lot puzzled when a new boy arrives at school wearing a balaclava. And goes on wearing one, day after day. What could Tommy possibly have to hide? Everyone has a...
View ArticlePrimperfect
In the event of my untimely death, please burn this unread. No, don’t DO it! Prim’s alive (though the dashing Roderick is, alas, no more). She’s sixteen. She’s trying to make sense of her mum’s...
View ArticleGood Red Herring
An intriguing murder mystery set in an imaginary world, peopled by vampires, dimorphs, luchrupáns and the odd - very odd - Salmon Farsade, an orphan with the ability to read auras. Salmon becomes...
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