I really enjoyed the adventure in this book, although Jack didn’t half give me a ‘heart’ attack when he would decide to join the other characters. Acton, the youngest member of the Belle family, immediately befriends a bright, red robin, leading him to discover a hidden key. Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in this gripping Victorian adventure, nominated for numerous awards; including the Carnegie Medal, the Waterstones Book Prize and the Branford Boase. The novel was nominated for several awards including the Carnegie medal, Branford Boase Award and the Children’s Book Prize by Waterstones.

A: Either at my desk in the sitting room or I go to one of the libraries like the British Library or the local one to do edits because it's quieter there, or a cafe if I want somewhere a bit noisier. Q: What is the most impressive man made machine you have seen, and did it help inspire Cogheart at the outset? First dated October 4, 2020; the serialized Cogheart Adventures’ third book is Skycircus whose translated titles include Himlacirkusen (Swedish), Atraksi Maut (Indonesian), and Podniebny (Polish). With her friends – Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox – Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world.The Moonstone is a Victorian mystery about a missing diamond that also influenced The Jewelled Moth by Katherine Woodfine and The Ruby in the Smoke by Phillip Pullman, two modern detective stories set in that era, which I have also enjoyed immensely. Even then, the highlight is Lily’s unexpected birthday present—she is exactly aged fourteen—where someone anonymously hands her flying mother’s personal effects, and a brochure plus accompanying tickets for a strange circus that turns out to be abusing automatons. Deryn’s father is the lighthouse keeper on Featherstone Island, keeping the lantern lit to protect passing boats from the treacherous rocky coastline.

There's always something interesting on there and my partner is a painter so we go to see a lot of their painting exhibitions, which are always interesting.A: If I had a mechanimal it would have to be an animal that didn't exist in the real world, like a dragon. I had audiobooks of Sherlock Holmes and they were both fascinatingly scary and fiendishly intriguing when you discovered how the villains had committed their crimes. It tells us a story of a happy family, whose happiness got even bigger with each baby having been born. Little Bill shows Clancy how to throw a fleece and then the rain arrives which means that the whole shearing process must stop. Peter Bunzi is a young adult, children’s and fantasy author best known as the author of “The Cogheart Adventures” series of novels.

During their ensuing forced sojourns with the carnival, the trio help dismantle and save many other automatons from their life-threatening exploitation by the circus handlers. The way society will try and iron out any quirks uniqueness in you and flatten you down to one thing - what they think you should be so you fit in. A: There's a little teaser at the end of book one and it's to do with an escaped convict, a missing locket and a woman from the past. Q: What inspired the mechanical elephant in Moonlocket - was it the one that went walkabout in London?

More than 150 years since Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published by Macmillan, revisit Carroll's amazing cast of characters in these brand-new stories, that will bring a new generation of readers to Wonderland. Most of all I want people to be drawn into the adventures and, as the series progresses, gradually feel like the characters are old friends. The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have. As a child, he was inspired visiting film and TV sets of the likes of “Postman Pat” and “James Bond” where his mother was a costume designer.