Arthur King
TV celebrity chef Miss La Fay is an international superstar, but unbeknown to her millions of fans right across the globe, she is in fact Morgan La Fay, the Arthurian sorceress. As a celebrity chef, she’s cooking up a plot to take over the world, casting spells through her recipes in books, online and on telly. All that stands in her way is a small boy called Arthur King, and all that stands in his – although he means to help – is the hapless wizard of mythical yore, Merlin.
With a live, ‘Cookalong’ planned for the weekend, Arthur and Merlin know the world is in peril. They have to act fast and find Excalibur, but with killer spells like ‘cheese and chutney melts’ to contend with – not least Merlin’s rusty knowledge of magic, the pair must journey forwards and backwards in time in a bid to thwart Morgan’s wicked schemes.
Will they succeed? Or will the taste of Morgan’s spells, prove to be too good?
The Abominable Doughman
Never could Gordon have imagined that his dream of owning a bakery would lead him, his family and the country into a nightmare. When his daughter, Iris, is bullied at school, he gets her to make a ‘worry loaf’ – a dough into which she can release some of her anger. The dough begins to rise and grows to become a monster which takes revenge on the bully, Natasha, who disappears amongst a trail of dough.
With fingers pointing at Gordon, he too makes a ‘worry loaf’ which like his daughter’s, grows to become another giant creature. After huge drifts of dough are discovered in the direction of London, Iris thinks she knows where Natasha has gone and the reason for her behaviour. The two huge creatures meanwhile wreak havoc in the City. Will the police find Natasha? Can the creatures be stopped? Or will the family’s new beginning lead all to a sticky end?
The Grown Up Children’s Home
“It’s an old house,” Mr Fletcher said. “It’s what old houses do.”
“Old houses creak,” said Zack. “They don’t burp and fart.”
When Jenny receives a key in the post from her elderly aunt Doris, labelled with the address of Doris’ childhood home, little can she imagine what it will open and what, in the end, it will lead to. The same can be said of Mr Fletcher when he receives the keys for his new home; a near-derelict house which, 70 years before, was that same childhood home of Doris, her family and a large group of trolls.
Doris has dementia and lives in a care home where evil Pipistrella Clout works as a nurse. Pipistrella’s mother was friends with Doris at school and, throughout her life, told Pipistrella about the trolls and a box of treasure hidden in her house.
When Pipistrella thinks she sees a troll, she starts to believe the story is true and when Mr Fletcher finds a troll living beneath the bathroom floor, the whole world begins to share in the magic of Doris’ childhood.
But what does it all mean and what will happen when the magic comes to an end?