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A fanged and fearsome fiend

Emma — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A FANG-tastically funny adventures series, perfect for 7+ readers and fans of Amelia Fang!

“Full of hilarious, highly illustrated mayhem” Guardian

“Loved it. Full of heart, laughs and adventure.” Dermot O’Leary

“Fearfully funny, and a book to get your teeth into! You’ll be Kevin’s biggest fang!” Danny Wallace

The time has come for Kevin’s Gloaming. This is a test every almost nearly eleven-year-old must pass to show they have all the necessary skills to be a vampire. Kevin will have to show he can transform into a bat, mind-speak and melt into the darkness. Which would be fine, except he hasn’t quite mastered the melt yet… If Kevin doesn’t pass, he’ll be cast out forever. Is there anyone who can help him?

A wild and wicked witch

Emma — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A FANG-tastically funny adventures series, perfect for 7+ readers and fans of Amelia Fang!

“Full of hilarious, highly illustrated mayhem” Guardian

“Loved it. Full of heart, laughs and adventure.” Dermot O’Leary

“Fearfully funny, and a book to get your teeth into! You’ll be Kevin’s biggest fang!” Danny Wallace

If Kevin the Vampire was already beside himself with excitement at visiting the Festival of Fear, he’s now even more so. His new best friend Susie and an extremely rare draffin called Gerald have joined his family’s carnival. It’s going to be better than ever! They might even win Carnival of the Year…

But because they are running late, Kevin’s family need to take a shortcut through the perilous Wild Woods, where no one ever goes because of the extremely wicked witch who lives there. But that should be fine as long as no one gets out and no one eats anything … right?

Kevin will be at the Festival before he knows it. After all, nothing ever goes wrong for the Carnival Monstromo…

Look out for Kevin’s other adventure, A Most Mysterious Monster!

Atlas of imagined cities

Emma — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo’s fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera’s Parisian lair to scenes from Grand Theft Auto in LA, this is an amazing atlas of imaginary locations in real-life cities around the world. Locations from film, TV, books, computer games and comics are ingeniously plotted on a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps.
Feauturing 14 of the world’s greatest cities, the maps show exactly where your favourite characters lived, loved, worked and played, and where iconic scenes took place. The locations have been painstakingly tracked down, mapped, annotated and wittily divulged by the authors, and an extensive index helps you find them all. Within the pages of this book, you’ll discover:
Where in London super-spies James Bond and George Smiley are neighbours.
The exact route of the exciting San Francisco car chase in Bullitt.
The Tokyo homes of all the magical girls from the classic Sailor Moon anime.
and many more fascinating locations drawn from the world’s imagination.
Accompanying the maps are illuminating essays that explain how the authors came to their decisions, along with explorations of the key locations and fun timelines of imaginary events. Find out how to get to Sesame Street, where to join Starfleet and thousands of other places besides, in this indispensable guidebook to all those places you always wanted to visit – if only they were real.

A most mysterious monster

Emma — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“Full of hilarious, highly illustrated mayhem” Guardian

“Loved it. Full of heart, laughs and adventure.” Dermot O’Leary

“Fearfully funny, and a book to get your teeth into! You’ll be Kevin’s biggest fang!” Danny Wallace

When Kevin and his family get stuck in a strange town, they accidentally wake up something OLD and VERY HUNGRY. It’s up to Kevin to save everyone – or else! The first in a brilliantly funny fantasy adventure series.

Kevin Aurelius is just like any other almost eleven-year-old.

Well, apart from his fangs obviously. And that he’s immortal. Oh and did I mention he’s a vampire?

Together with his vampire parents and annoying older siblings, Kevin’s on his way to Monstros City when, due to dodgy batnav, they get stranded in a strange, quiet place full of humans called Lower Drudging. With empty coffers in need of filling, their only choice is to put on an impromptu carnival to earn the gold they need to get back on their way.

But Lower Drudging has a monstrous secret of its own. A secret that is old, very hungry and has just woken up! It’s up to Kevin and his new best friend Susie to save the town – or else!

Black and white illustrations throughout by Flavia Sorrentino.

The Mab

Emma — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

‘These stories make the wall between worlds thrillingly thin. Their enchantment calls to us ever from the other side of the door’ Michael Sheen, from the foreword

If you think you’ve heard all the fairy tales out there, think again. Inside this book you will find eleven epic Welsh tales from long ago, but not so far away, that are bound to enchant you. The Mab is a collection full to the brim with brand new versions of really, really old stories from the Mabinogi – maybe the oldest written-down stories in the history of Britain.

But as well as being really, really old, the stories in The Mab are strange and funny and thrilling. Alive with mystery and magic, they speak of a time when the gates between the Real World and the Otherworld were occasionally left open. And sometimes, just sometimes, it was possible to step through.

The stories in this illustrated edition have been reimagined by an extraordinary team of writers, and each appears alongside a Welsh-language translation.