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Who could have imagined that a pile of old nuts and bolts in a garden shed could have a life of their own? Well, prepare to be amazed as we follow the gravel path by the orchard fence, where young Morris Wainwright once searched for fossils among the polished stones, to an old garden shed with a green pitched roof. It’s half hidden by moss and ivy and sheltered from the summer heat by overhanging apple boughs. The window looks onto a garden of tall yellow weeds where a line of shirts and socks flutter in the breeze.

Clive the spider lives a quiet life in an old pair of boots that once belonged to grandad. But when Albert Spindler, the owner of the boots, finds the name Montgomery inside them, he thinks he has struck gold. He believes the boots are a rare relic from Monty, the legendary World War Two hero. He decides to take them to London and sell them at Sotheby’s Auction House. But things don’t go as planned. Along the way, Clive faces many dangers, including a near-fatal plunge into the Thames. He has to use his wit and cleverness to stay alive.

The Reverend Blackstone tries to demonstrate to his flock in Ditmus that not everyone is out to get 'nufink for nufink'. However, as with most things in life, events don't work out as intended! The people of Ditmus are about to learn that 'charity should always begin at home!'

This is the story of Tich, how he became a chimney sweep's climbing boy and found a new friend, Sootyfoot, a climbing boy's brush. Together they found a world of magic and adventure beyond the soot and grime of the chimneys of Barley Grange, which was to change Tich's life forever. As Tich grows up, he finds himself manipulated by the ghosts of Barley Grange, who prompt him to dedicate himself to trying to change the lives of poor children forever, ensuring that never again will they need to climb chimneys to survive.

Mallows Common and Thereabouts is the third book in the series featuring Tussel Fleabane, Adviser and Protector, as he continues his work of protecting the plants and animals as their world is changing fast. Tussel Fleabane is no ordinary being. In fact he is too tiny to be even considered as a man. He can stand inside a daffodil trumpet to shelter from a shower of rain, or even swing on a spider's web to cross a stream, and sometimes, just for fun, he'll grab a handful of dandelion seeds and float through the air!

Wisdom’s End is a fantasy adventure in which a wandering minstrel and his dancing dog take us on a journey of discovery at a time when most humans have abandoned the polluted surface of the planet for a life of servitude to the robots in the underground levels.

Tussel Fleabane is no ordinary being. In fact he is too tiny to be even considered as a man. He can stand inside a daffodil trumpet to shelter from a shower of rain, or even swing on a spider's web to cross a stream, and sometimes, just for fun, he'll grab a handful of dandelion seeds and float through the air!

Mantra of the Galaxies is an adventure in the series featuring Tussel Fleabane, Adviser and Protector, as he continues his work of protecting the plants and animals as their world is changing fast. Tussel Fleabane is no ordinary being. In fact he is too tiny to be even considered as a man. He can stand inside a daffodil trumpet to shelter from a shower of rain, or even swing on a spider's web to cross a stream, and sometimes, just for fun, he'll grab a handful of dandelion seeds and float through the air!