New Books

This month I have two new book coming out. The first one is Odysseys and the Wooden Horse - the story of the wooden horse of Troy. I was really excited when Melanie, one of my lovely editors at Franklin Watts, asked if I’d like to write a version of this story as it really is one of my favourites. It was interesting trying to write the story in such a short form and still keep in as many of the characters as I could – Achilles, the greatest warrior, Paris and Hector. The story has been brought to life with artwork by the marvellous Martin Remphry. It was great working with Martin again – he illustrated one of my first books with Franklin Watts – A gift for the king – and has also done the fantastic artwork for all of my Robin Hood Books.

Book 4 in my Robo-runners series, Powerball, is out this month too. Book 4 finds Crank, Al and their friends continuing their search for Robotika – a place where old robots can be free to live their lives in peace. Flying in the starship Terrapin, they land on the Iron City - a huge walking mining city of a city run by robots. Here, our heroes get their chance to become world famous powerball players… but things don’t go quite they way they had hoped.