Rip Runner

Mystery adventure, 10+

Sir Pent is back, and is more powerful and dangerous than ever before. He has become a minister in the government and has weaseled his way into the world of sport. He is determined that his own private team of athletes win the Junior Olympics, and he’ll stop at nothing, not even kidnap, to get his runner up on the podium.
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The Geek, the Greek and the Pimpernel

Mystery adventure, 10+

What do I think of exams?

Everyone with their heads down and scribbling. The air thick with
anxiety . . .

SATS! RATS! BATS!

No, I don’t like exams at all. And while I think about it I don’t much like bullies or stupid rules, or boring lessons – and if you put all three together you get my nightmare school.
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Jamboy

Fantasy adventure, 10+

This is the sequel to Abe’s Team. On their return from Egypt, Abe and Alicia have to search out their anarchic team of ancient footballing chums. But in the time that they have been away, Britain has completely changed and is now ruled by a dark sisterhood of witches. Time seems to have gone backwards, cities have crumbled, motorways have become cracked with weeds. And Alicia and Abe realise – or at least Alicia realises – that the only way you can fight magic is with magic. The trouble is, magic corrupts. Alicia discovers she has the power, but this power begins to change
her . . .
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Abe’s Team

Fantasy adventure, 10+

I was sent off to boarding school when I was seven. My main memory is of always being made to stand out in the corridor. I didn’t mind this too much because there were loads of photographs along the corridor of boys who had been at the school before me. Still, it could get quite spooky standing down there on your own when everyone else was up in their dormitory and the corridor seemed so long and shadowy.
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Sea Dance

Drama, 13+

Willie Cormack is a young lad, a gifted fiddler player and with an eye for the girls too maybe. He lives in a wild enough place right out at the end of a place called the Mullet – a peninsula, so on three sides of him there is the cold deep Atlantic. And what is it that he fears more than anything else?
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The Drowning Pool

Mystery drama, 11+

I really like Kate. This is her story and she’s very honest – though, as she tells us pretty early on, she, well, makes things up, ‘not lies exactly but they just slip out . . . I suppose they are lies.’ That’s her. She has a fluffy glove puppet called Rabbit that she talks to quite a bit; ever since her younger brother got killed in a road accident.
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Absolute Trust

Thriller, 13+

This story was set in a near future which in some ways we have already passed by. England is becoming a police state. London is crumbling and there is violence in the air. Demonstrations are attacked by thugs and nobody seems to trust anyone…
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Berry Moon

Mystery, 12+

Wild men lurching out of the mist, a house burning down, a body hauled out of the river tangled in a poacher’s net . . . the village that Sean Moon and his family move to is a disturbingly unfriendly place. It seems that the one thing the villagers agree on is that they dislike the Moon family . . . ‘Bad faith to them.’
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