****eBook Edition**This story within a story within a story celebrates the creative art of storytelling.**In London's Belgravia, Tamsin lives next door to Edie St Clair, famous author of the ‘London of the Bells’ series of graphic novels. With the series’ tenth and final novel overdue, Tamsin offers her idol help and discovers that Edie can literally draw herself into her stories. When Edie goes missing, Tamsin draws herself into the novel and lands in a world of unexpected...

The final exciting instalment in the Miss Penny Dreadful series from acclaimed author Allison Rushby.Searching for a new story idea for her aunt’s famous penny dreadfuls, Penny and Aunt Harriet decide to follow up a newspaper article about a mysterious mermaid’s grotto. Hidden down a secret passageway on the banks of the River Thames, the only way to enter is through a tavern, aptly named The Mermaid’s Locks.In the glittering grotto, Penny and her aunt find...

Is the eerie tree beside their bucolic cottage really a threat to ten-year-old Immy? Legend and hearsay give way to a creepy series of events in a captivating mystery.Do naught wrong by the mulberry tree, or she’ll take your daughters . . . one, two, three.Ten-year-old Immy and her family have run away from their storm cloud of problems to a tiny village in Cambridgeshire, England, where her depressed physician father can take a sabbatical and get ...

A captivating, spooky mystery for middle-grade readers from acclaimed author Allison Rushby.Do naught wrong by the mulberry tree, or she’ll take your daughters … one, two, three.Ten-year-old Immy and her family run away from their storm cloud of problems to a tiny village in Cambridgeshire, England. When they find an adorable thatched cottage to begin a perfect new life in, the only downside is the ancient, dark and fierce-looking mulberry tree in ...

**eBook Only** A captivating supernatural mystery set in a house haunted by secrets from the past.Eleven-year-old Lolli must return to London and break a promise she made to herself — to never again enter the house in Spitalfields, an historic building managed by her family.There, Lolli must face up to what she saw in the house several years ago and make things right for two ghosts, one friendly and one decidedly not, and open her heart to people in both th...

**eBook Edition** An enquiring mind - and mystical mysteries to solve - adds up to adventure in the first book of the new junior fiction series from acclaimed author Allison Rushby.“Now, Miss Pickering.” Miss Strickland turned to her pupil. “If you would be so kind as to close the door behind you, we will endeavour to discuss why your aunt, her publisher and her monkey have called upon us this afternoon.”1872Forever in troub...

A delightful, festive story in this funny, illustrated Australian series for newly independent readers. It' s Christmastime, but Flick and Birdie are missing their Granny Aggie. To cheer them up, Mum and Dad invite the neighbours over to decorate gingerbread houses. All is going well until Mrs Mortlake brings up Christmas wishes, giving baby Birdie all the wrong ideas. How can Flick spread the joy of Christmas when a gingerbread person is biting the guests?

Imagine if your baby sister could make wishes come true… It' s school sports day and Flick is ready to run! So is Dad. He' s been training for the parent– teacher race. But excitement like this puts baby Birdie in a wishing mood. Soon Flick' s nerves are jittery – and not just because of the competition. How can she make sure her team wins fair and square when Birdie starts meddling with the most important race of the day?

Imagine if your baby sister could make wishes come true… Flick has just found out her little sister has a special gift. Birdie has wished for a super-fabulous unicorn party and it has magically appeared in their backyard! There's a rainbow slide made out of sour straps, a ball pit full of marshmallows and a real-life unicorn that poops cupcakes! How can Flick stop the nosy next-door neighbour finding out about Birdie' s magic when the birthday cake is floating like a cloud?

The second book in a mystical and adventurous junior fiction series from acclaimed author Allison Rushby.From the moment Penny steps into her family’s Hyde Park Square townhouse, she can sense something dreadful has happened. This is confirmed when she discovers her parents’ laboratory in terrible disarray. Before she can find out any more, Penny is whisked away with her authoress aunt to Harewood Hall in the countryside, where a malicious maze is rumoured to be go...

The spooky, action-packed and much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning The Turnkey.Flossie Birdwhistle is the Turnkey at London’s Highgate Cemetery. Seven years have passed since Flossie saved her country from a ghostly invasion during World War II. Since then, things have been quiet. That is, until Flossie’s nemesis, Hugo Howsham, reveals a secret the pair have been keeping – the keys of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries can be combined to make a Turnk...

Die zehnjährige Immy und ihre Familie ziehen in ein kleines Dorf bei Cambridge in England. In einem idyllischen Cottage wollen sie alles, was in Australien bedrückend war, hinter sich lassen. Aber ein uralter, dunkler, riesiger Baum im Garten stört ihren Frieden. Die Dorfbewohner fürchten ihn und erzählen, er würde die Mädchen des Hauses in der Nacht vor ihrem elften Geburtstag rauben. Das ist natürlich Humbug, meint Immy, bis ein merkwürdiges Lied in ihrem Kopf auftaucht und sie merkt, da...