Maggie Sparks is NOT telling the truth!

Well, not now after everyone believed her lying cousin Ella over her, landing Maggie in BIG trouble.

But the more lies Maggie tells, the more chaos they cause and the less Arthur wants to be friends with her. Luckily, Maggie’s a super powerful, super smart, super talented witch. She’s determined to use her powers to put things right again, ace her school project and win back Arthur’s friendship.

ISBN: 9781802630572
RRP: $6.99
Length: 112 pages

Ellie and her mum are starting a new life in a new town and a very, very old building. They’re opening a cat café, but there’s a lot to do first – like welcoming the Andersons.

Ellie doesn’t want to share her home with strangers, especially Blake and his energetic puppy, Choccy. But when Ellie and Blake discover a magical old phone and a mouse determined to get rid of them, they’ll have to find a way to all get along together.

ISBN: 9781782268291
RRP: $6.99
Length: 128 pages

Worried about the future of the cat café, Ellie and Blake investigate a rumour at the local park. It’s the perfect place to test their new ability to understand animals – and there’s a bird who’s happy to talk.

Shazza the cockatoo is loud, bossy and obsessed with ‘numnums’. All she wants is to return to Australia. But for now she’ll settle for inviting herself home with Ellie and Blake, who soon learn that getting along with animals can be just as hard as getting along with people.

ISBN: 9781802630428
RRP: $6.99
Length: 128 pages

Along with her friend Blake, Ellie is desperately searching for answers about what happened to her great-grandfather years ago. But when they get caught up in the middle of an animal war in the local park, they have more pressing things to think about.

Robbie the red squirrel and his clan are clashing with the bigger, meaner grey squirrels. As Robbie bravely stands up to the Greys, Ellie and Blake do their best to stop the squirrels from fighting and bring peace to the park.

ISBN: 9781802630589
RRP: $6.99
Length: 128 pages

It could be Tim’s last time in Ancient Greece, but instead of saying goodbye, he’s busy trading song titles with Apollo, delivering a package to Narcissus, escaping from Hera and making a pig of himself at Circe’s table. Meanwhile his friends have forgotten who he is, so who will save him when it all goes wrong?

ISBN: 9781782266419
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 pages

All Tim wanted was advice on keeping his model boat afloat, but when Zoe is injured, only Jason and the Argonut can help him to save her. There’s no joyriding allowed, but with bronze men and Grey Women – not to mention an old wind bag to deal with, Tim’s still got that sinking feeling…

ISBN: 9781782266402
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 Pages

Agatha has been taken prisoner and it’s up to Tim and friends to save her. But how? They’d have to
trick Hera, sneak into her fortress, past her army – it seems impossible! Hera’s soldiers are armed to the teeth, tempers are hot, and who ever heard of a Trojan Peacock?

ISBN: 9781782266426
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 pages

Tim Baker’s got problems: he’s failing maths, banished from Ancient Greece, and confused about what to call Mum’s new boyfriend. What makes a good father anyway? Is it strength and courage? Is it attractiveness? Wisdom? Intelligence? Does it have anything to do with beans? Let the Labours of Larry/Mr Green begin!

ISBN: 9781782265535
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 Pages

Tim Baker thinks his adventures are over until he hitches a ride to Ancient Greece on a stolen vase. Soon Tim finds himself trapped with an army of peacocks and a hero who can’t stop admiring himself. Thank the gods his new friend Zoe is there to help. Just don’t tell her dad…

ISBN: 9781782265511
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 Pages

How do you bring a statue to life? Tim and Zoe think they know. If only Jason would help and someone didn’t keep looking at them like flies in a web. Oh well, at least the time-travelling vase is in good hands. Well, god hands. The god of thieves and liars’ hands. Uh oh …

ISBN: 9781782265528
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 Pages

Why is Tim’s picture on an ancient oil flask at the British Museum? Is Hera planning to trap him with it? How? When? Tim needs a god who can see the future. Only one thing’s certain: with puking punks, pomegranate grenades and possible butterfly tornadoes, it’s about to get chaotic.

ISBN: 9781782265542
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 Pages

Breaking news: Hera is loose in the modern day and giving London an Ancient Greek makeover. That is until her son arrives to steal her thunder. Tim’s final adventure is an A to Z of Olympic family drama, and all he has to help is a box he can’t open. Where curiosity was Pandora’s weakness, can hope bring our hero strength?

ISBN: 9781782266440
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 pages

What the Hades? Tim’s used to solo time-travel but now there’s a `friend’ along for the ride. When things go south after some bird spotting, Tim has to avoid being burnt alive, eaten alive or dead alive. But the Underworld is full of dangers, and the local music isn’t exactly lifting his spirits.

ISBN: 9781782266433
RRP: $6.99
Length: 208 pages

“Whoever gave you that sandwich did it deliberately. They wanted to sabotage Fleming’s research.”

When Agatha accidentally eats a major scientific discovery (hidden in a sandwich!), it’s a race against time for twins Agatha and Christie to find out who’s trying to ruin physician Sir Alexander Fleming’s reputation.

ISBN: 9781782267966
Length: 128 Pages
RRP: $6.99

“His intent is more than clear: he’d rather see me and my car lost, than for us to reach the summit.”

Many are unhappy about Mr Alexander Jr’s daring drive to the summit of Ben Nevis, but who is trying to sabotage the record-setting expedition? Willing passengers Christie and Agatha are keen to embark on a rip-roaring adventure, but soon they’re embroiled in a thicker plot than they bargained for.

ISBN: 9781782268307
RRP: $6.99
Length: 128 Pages

‘The truth of the matter is that a number of valuable artefacts have been stolen. There is a thief at the dig!’

During the excavation of an Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb, Christie and Agatha find themselves at the heart of a mystery. Lord and Lady Carnarvon’s dig is in jeopardy unless the thief at the site can be found. But time is quickly running out for the twins to wrap up the case and recover Tutankhamun’s treasures.

ISBN: 9781802630435
RRP: $6.99
Length: 144 Pages

Oliver Twist is poor. Always has been, always will be. Being born in a workhouse means that you’ll probably always be treated like rubbish. Oliver does not want a life of hard work and measly meals, but he soon learns that it’s never safe to ask for more …

What Oliver really needs is a family. But is a family of thieves, kidnappers and killers really a family at all?

ISBN: 9781782267423
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

Who can help a mean old man to love Christmas? How about a ghost? (… or three!)

Scrooge’s heart is colder than snow, he’s richer than half the banks in England and meaner than, well, everyone. But when three seriously spooky ghosts turn up to take him on an adventure through time, he soon learns that being cold isn’t cool. Can he change his ways before it’s too late?

ISBN: 9781782267492
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

Pip’s just your average boy. He has no parents, lives with his scary sister and once met an escaped criminal on Christmas Eve – in the middle of a graveyard. Totally normal.

And things get even stranger when a mysterious stranger starts paying him loads of money. Sure, Pip’s loving his new life of luxury, but will he ever find out who’s paying the bills, and what they want from him in return?

ISBN: 9781782267447
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

David’s life isn’t easy. His father is dead and his mother is getting married to the meanest man in the country. And when he is sent off to a truly terrible school, David discovers punishments more terrible than he can imagine. Surely life can’t get any worse!

The only happy ever afters David knows are in the pages of his favourite books. Can he rewrite his own ending?

ISBN: 9781782267485
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

Filled with rusting relics and tattered treasure maps, The Old Curiosity Shop is Nell Trent’s favourite place in the whole world. This is lucky, because it’s also her home.

Nell and her grandfather have always been happy with their simple lives. But when money gets tight, the pair are thrown out of their beloved shop and into the unknown. Poor and hungry, with no one to turn to, how will they cope now?

ISBN: 9781782267430
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

Kate and Nicholas Nickelby’s life is bliss until their father dies. After that they’re left penniless, living in London with only their horrible uncle to help them.

ISBN: 9781782267454
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

In Coketown, there’s no place for imagination. There are facts and figures and absolutely nothing else – or so Thomas Gradgrind thinks.

When the circus appears in town, it brings Sissy Jupe with it. A young girl who has been abandoned by her father and is taken in by Thomas Gradgrind. Full of fun and energy, will Sissy save the Gradgrind children from a life of fact-and-figure-filled misery before it’s too late?

ISBN: 9781782267461
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

With daily beheadings and famous buildings being burnt to the ground, Paris during the Revolution is not the safest place to be.

When Dr Manette is released from prison and reunited with his daughter, everything seems to finally be getting better. But his daughter’s boyfriend is keeping some dangerous secrets that lead the family on a deadly adventure. How long can ‘happy ever after’ really last?

ISBN: 9781782267478
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

After surviving fourteen long years with her horrible aunt, and nothing but a doll and an old handkerchief for company, Esther Summerson’s life is finally looking a little brighter. She’s going to school and making friends, real friends!

The only thing Esther’s missing now is a mother. But long-lost parents don’t just turn up out of the blue on a rainy afternoon … do they?

ISBN: 9781782267508
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

Amy Dorrit’s father has been in prison for as long as she can remember. That’s totally normal, isn’t it? Just like doing chores for horrid Mrs Clennam, fixing her sister’s dresses (without getting any thanks) and saving her own dinner to feed her father.

When Mrs Clennam’s son returns from abroad, he brings with him a host of family secrets and turns Amy’s normal life on its head. Could things actually get better?

ISBN: 9781782267515
RRP: $6.95
Length: 96 pages

Many years ago, a young homeless boy was taken in at Wuthering Heights. Older now, Heathcliff is set on revenge, and destroying everybody around him.
And there is a lonely ghost roaming the moors, who is determined to be reunited with her lover …

ISBN: 9781782267621
RRP: $6.95
Length: 121 pages

Plain and poor, Jane Eyre has always been treated unkindly. Her aunt and cousins despise her, and her school is cruel. One day, Jane sets out on her own to be a governess at Thornfield. Here Jane meets Mr Rochester, the serious master of the house.
And there is a strange, eerie laughter coming from the attic …

ISBN: 9781782269731
RRP: $6.95
Length: 121 pages

A mysterious woman has arrived at Wildfell Hall. Unmarried and living alone, she is the subject of whispers and rumours. Where has she come from? Where is her husband? Gilbert is determined to find out about this secretive woman. And, when he gets her journal, he finally has the chance …

ISBN: 9781782267638
RRP: $6.95
Length: 121 pages

Body thought to be that of E.J. Drebber discovered last night in empty London house. No obvious cause of death. Address given as Cleveland Ohio. Any information would be appreciated.

After a mysterious murder leaves the police baffled, the world’s best amateur detective is asked to investigate. Along with his fellow lodger, Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes sets about uncovering a quest for revenge that runs far deeper than anybody suspected.

ISBN: 9781782265757
RRP: $6.95
Length: 216 pages

“Be at the third pillar from the left outside the Lyceum Theatre tonight at seven o’clock. You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain.”

When Holmes is asked to look into a cryptic message received by Mary Morstan, neither he nor Watson expect to be drawn into a decades-old web of betrayal. Soon they’re conducting dangerous moonlit expeditions to uncover the meaning of the sign of the four, and resolve a long-buried crime.

ISBN: 9781782265764
RRP: $6.95
Length: 256 Pages

A valuable jewel known as the Blue Carbuncle was stolen from the jewel case of the Countess of Morcar yesterday.
A reward of £1000 has been offered by the countess for information leading to the stone’s return …

While the police work to trace the missing diamond, Holmes attempts to reunite a Christmas dinner and its owner. But when the detective comes across the jewel, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race against time to save an innocent man’s life.

ISBN: 9781782265771
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 Pages

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Miss Julia Stoner of Stoke Moran. The cause of death remains unknown.

The mysterious noises last heard around the time of Julia’s death are back, and her sister Helen knows it is simply a matter of time before she suffers the same fate. There is a dark plot afoot and the only way to catch the culprit is to walk into a deadly trap …

ISBN: 9781782265788
RRP: $6.95
Length: 128 Pages

The Red-Headed League is looking for a new member to assist with minor tasks. The salary for this position will be four pounds a week. All red-headed men in good health and over the age of twenty-one will be considered.

After Jabez Wilson’s well-paid position with the Red-Headed League ends with no warning, he asks Holmes to find out why. What starts out as a straightforward investigation turns into a midnight stakeout as Holmes attempts to prevent a shocking crime.

ISBN: 9781782265795
RRP: $6.95
Length: 120 Pages

Keen to help his friend recover from a particularly stressful case, Watson arranges for them to visit a friend in the country. But after a robbery baffles the local police, Holmes is drawn into a web of lies, blackmail and murder. It’s up to him to identify the villains – if he survives the case, that is …

ISBN: 9781782265801
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 Pages

Watson, Do you think you could bring your friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, down to see me? My position at the Foreign Office seemed safe until this horrible disaster. I fear my career is ruined!

War becomes a real possibility after a top-secret document is stolen from the Foreign Office. But why has the thief waited ten weeks to sell the treaty? Holmes and Watson are plunged into a world of international diplomacy only to find that danger can come from unexpected quarters.

ISBN: 9781782265818
RRP: $6.95
Length: 152 pages

Sir – our client, Mr Robert Ferguson, has made an enquiry concerning vampires. Since we are an engineering firm, unfortunately the matter is not one upon which we can advise. Perhaps you can help.

Holmes and Watson take on their strangest case yet when a distraught husband comes to them desperate to understand his wife’s weird behaviour. He’s caught her sucking the blood of their baby son! But there’s no such thing as a vampire … is there?

ISBN: 9781782265825
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 Pages

Seven years ago a disturbing incident took place in the village of Abbas Parva. Mr Ronder, owner of Ronder’s Wild Animals Show, met his end after an escaped lion attacked him.

Holmes is confronted with an old mystery when he is summoned to visit a lady who refuses to show her face. A grisly crime committed seven years ago has had terrible consequences, and it is up to Holmes to save the veiled lodger from her own conscience.

ISBN: 9781782265832
RRP: $6.95
Length: 104 pages

Mr Holmes – I beg for your assistance. I cannot engage the police. If news of this dreadful scandal were to reach the public, the reputation of this university would be utterly destroyed.

A leisurely research trip turns into a race against time when Professor Soames comes to Holmes and Watson with a bizarre mystery. Three students are suspected of cheating – can Holmes solve the case in time for the examination to go ahead?

ISBN: 9781782265849
RRP: $6.95
Length: 216 Pages

At quarter to eight tonight, a gentleman will call. He would like to ask you about a very important matter. Do not think it odd if your visitor wears a mask.

When Sherlock Holmes is asked for help by a powerful yet dim king, it seems that he cannot refuse. But the detective has no idea that this case will bring him up against a woman just as clever, cunning and quick as he is. Has Holmes finally met his match?

ISBN: 9781782266518
RRP: $6.95
Length: 120 pages

Mr Holmes – Please be at the BLACK SWAN HOTEL in Winchester at midday tomorrow. Do come! I am at my WITS’ END!

After a frightened Violet Hunter turns to Holmes and Watson for advice, the crime-fighting duo find themselves pulled into a dangerous mystery. For there’s far more than secrets hiding in the halls of The Copper Beeches …

ISBN: 9781782266525
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 pages

KENSINGTON OUTRAGE. MURDER BY MADMAN.

Both the experienced detective, Mr Lestrade, and consulting expert, Mr Sherlock Holmes, have concluded that this horrible series of events is the work of a MADMAN, not a common criminal. No other explanation makes sense.

Someone is smashing statues of Napoleon and the police have no idea why. Luckily, Holmes and Watson are on hand to help. Little do they know that these few small crimes will turn into one big adventure!

ISBN: 9781782266532
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 pages

Missing: Mr Jeremiah Hayling, aged 26, a hydraulic engineer. He left his house at ten o’clock at night on the 9^th of this month, and has not been heard from since.

When Watson’s latest patient confronts him with a missing thumb and a horrifying story, he knows just where to turn. This is a case for Sherlock Holmes. But, can Holmes and Watson unravel this deadly mystery in time to catch the criminals?

ISBN: 9781782266549
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 pages

‘Tell me, Watson, do you get a creeping feeling when you watch the snakes in the zoo? That’s how I feel when I see Milverton. I’ve met more than fifty murderers in my life, but he is worse than all of them.’

In an attempt to save a woman’s marriage, Holmes is forced to come face-to-face with one of his worst enemies: Charles Augustus Milverton. This abominable villain is holding hostage the secrets of London’s rich and powerful, and threatening to ruin the innocent Lady Eva. Can Holmes and Watson stop him before time runs out?

ISBN: 9781782266556
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 pages

The police are no closer to solving the murder of trainer, John Straker. He was killed on Monday night, 22^nd October. The famous racehorse Silver Blaze has been missing since the night of the attack.

The country’s most famous racehorse has mysteriously disappeared and, what’s worse, his trainer has been murdered! All eyes turn to Sherlock Holmes to unravel this strange mystery, find the murderer and return Silver Blaze to safety – all before the Wessex Cup race.

ISBN: 9781782266563
RRP: $6.95
Length: 120 pages

Am at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once. Bring a jemmy, a lantern, a chisel, and a gun.

S.H.

The secret plans for a submarine super-weapon have been stolen and it’s up to Holmes to find them. But with the government, the military and even his own brother turning up the pressure, can the genius detective unravel the web of secrets, spies and cunning crimes before it’s too late?

ISBN: 9781782266570
RRP: $6.95
Length: 120 pages

Whose was it? His who is gone. Who shall have it? He who will come. Where was the sun? Over the oak. Where was the shadow? Under the elm.

It’s time for Holmes to rewrite history. When asked by his old school friend to help track down a missing maid, the genius detective finds himself unravelling a centuries-old mystery, and discovering much more than he expected.

ISBN: 9781782266587
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 pages

I am perfectly willing to act as business manager for the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, at a minimum salary of £500 – Mr Hall Pycroft.

Hall Pycroft is a simple man, looking for a simple job. But working for the Pinner brothers is certainly not simple. When Pycroft finds himself caught in the middle of a troubling mystery, he turns to the only man he knows can solve it: Sherlock Holmes

ISBN: 9781782264286
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 pages

‘This is not danger. It is definite destruction. Even with all your cleverness, you do not realise it. You must stand clear, Mr Holmes, or you will be crushed underfoot.’

Holmes is facing a problem – a big one. He’s on the tail of his most dangerous criminal to date, Professor Moriarty. But it seems that the professor is one step ahead. Can the detective unwind Moriarty’s web of crime before it’s too late? Or could this really be Holmes’ last case?

ISBN: 9781782266600
RRP: $6.95
Length: 112 pages