Cirrus@Austlit

'Aubrey Fitzwilliam is the son of a prominent ex-prime minister. He's also brilliant at magic, but he's stuck at military school. At least he has his best friend, George, there to back him up. George would follow Aubrey anywhere - and with Aubrey's talent for thinking up impulsive and daring schemes that will get them both in trouble, that's no easy thing to do.

At a weekend shooting party at Prince Albert's country estate, the boys find themselves in a hotbed of intrigue and politics. They discover a golem, a magical creature built to perform one task: to kill Prince Albert. Aubrey and George are hailed as heroes for foiling the attempt on the prince's life - but who sent the golem, and why? Aubrey is far too curious to let the authorities handle this one, and he and George start investigating.'

Source: Publisher's Blurb

'"The medallion appeared at around four in the afternoon, when I was doing my homework. Maths homework, naturally, so it arrived at exactly the right time. It simply dropped out of thin air and landed on top of my algebra."

When she has finished her homework and read the relevant chapter in What to Do in the Event of Mysterious Events in the Home ("Strange Jewellery: How to cope with it") Ana Beachcombe decides to use the medallion to travel to another world. She finds herself in the Land of Bad Fantasy, ruled by King Petrolliumand currently embroiled in a war against the Western warlord and his army of lizard warriors. Ana finds three unlikely allies - an educated ogre, a were-canary, and a monster who is sensitive to light and allergic to blood, and together, they take on the enemy.'

'The truth to the Book of Lies is within its very pages

'Three children, Marcel, Nicola and Fergus, have been left mysteriously in an orphanage run by the kindly Mrs Timmins, but overseen by the fearsome wizard Lord Alwyn and his creature Termagant. Marcel learns that the mysterious book of Lies can tell falsehood from truth. But can it tell him who he really is?

'He is not alone in his confusion, either. When the stranger Starkey arrives, Marcel, the haughty Nicola and battle-obsessed Fergus discover that they have a vital part to play in saving the Kingdom from evil. But something's not right. Is Starkey friend or foe? And is Lord Alwyn the evil wizard the children first thought? And will the truth really be revealed in the pages of the Book of Lies?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.