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When 12 year old Billy's Grandpa tells him about his Great Gran Milly contracting the terrible bone disease, ‘Phossy Jaw’ as a result of working in a Victorian match factory, Billy wishes he could somehow fix things. But how? An adventure with a magical twist. For children aged 9-12.

Joe Waxon-Ears is an angry kid. Taunted at school for his apparent deafness, this modern-day "Dennis the Menace" takes out his anger on his classmates and on his long-suffering mother, before a chance meeting with the Ghoul changes everything. Paul Haston's book is a coming-of-age magical realism for children aged 9 to 12.

Tinker’s mother works at the local radio factory. Vital to the war effort, she tells him. Apparently, people need radios to listen to Hitler’s armies rampaging across Europe. But that doesn’t explain the mysterious note he finds in his mother’s bag. Nor the appearance of Ola, the girl with the Eastern European accent. And when his sheep dog, Fidget, leads him to strange whirring sounds coming from Hut 8 in Bletchley Park, Tinker knows he must solve the puzzle, with the survival of his world dependent upon it.

Caleb knows that the decaying German bunker at Rocquaine Bay on his island of Guernsey is haunted. Samuel Vogel, his arch enemy at school, has told him. But when his Grandpa Bertie hands him a brass ring that could have saved his Great Grandpa Alfred, a Spitfire pilot, from being shot down during World War 2, and learns of the arrest by the Nazis of his Great Grandma Mary, Caleb wishes he could fix things. But how? Paul Haston's book is a coming of age, historical fiction with a magical twist for children aged 9-12.