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Children and young adults

Curious minds.
Impossible doors.

Picture books, early chapter books and longer adventures for middle-grade and young-adult readers.

Early readers & chapter books

Small paws. Big journey.

Tórathe Grey Tiger

Featured · Early chapter book

Tóra the Grey Tiger

When Tóra the cat returns home to find her house empty, she fears she has lost her beloved human friend, Joy, forever.

With the unlikely help of a magpie, a mouse and a wise old tree, she follows a trail of clues and discovers that things are not always what they seem.

Ages 5–8Animal adventureWork in progress

Middle grade & young adult

Longer journeys into stranger worlds

G.O.L.I.A.T.H.S.The Widger
Upstairs
Eight hidden dimensions. One way home.

Featured · Middle grade · Complete first draft

The Widger Upstairs

Ten-year-old Davie searches his mysterious lodger Idony’s room for proof that she is a witch, only to fall through a strange screen into the eight hidden dimensions of the G.O.L.I.A.T.H.S. world.

Stranded among goblins, vampires and creatures his books never explained properly, Davie must cross an impossible world and find his way back to the mother he fears he may never see again.

Ages 8–12Fantasy adventureComplete first draft

Young-adult fantasy · In development

Sorrow’s Puppets

When twelve-year-old Jason Cassidy’s father is kidnapped, Jason must find magical puppets that control humanity’s darkest emotions before Loki and Nejlika can use them to unleash Ragnarök.

Picture books & shorter works

Stories made to share

Picture book

Brus the Bus

Brus prides himself on always running on time, until Pat the Cat needs urgent help and he discovers that compassion matters more than any timetable.

Picture book

Mrs Wheelchair and Mr Hill

A story about movement, obstacles and seeing the world from another person’s point of view.

Children’s mystery

Daniel Dean

Eight-year-old Daniel investigates why the road he walks to school has no number thirteen.