Genres: Children's fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Humour & Satire
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Revenge is sweet! Have you ever had a dinnerlady you detested? Was there a teacher you couldn't stand? What about the kid who told laughable lies? Or the girl who spoiled every school trip? Or the boy who bullied the refugee kid? These stories are for anyone who has ever gritted their teeth and wished someone else would get everything they deserved. Giggle, gasp and gag at this collection of tales of misadventure and revenge, as thirteen people discover what it means to be unbelievably unlucky!

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

November 1940: could German bombers put a stop to Joe's time travelling for good? Bombs have been raining down on Liverpool when Joe Hopkins falls out of the football match he's watching. He finds himself in World War Two, in a city under siege from the skies: the planes of the Luftwaffe are on a mission to bring terror and destruction to one of England's most strategically significant ports. Lucy and her family are bearing up through the air raids, but it's not long before she and Joe discover that not everyone around them is on the same side of this war. As one familiar face after another reappears from Lucy's many pasts, Joe begins to fear, too, that this is the curtain call. Will an air raid put a stop to his time travels? Worse still, will the lethal force of the Luftwaffe be the end of Lucy herself?...

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Can the latest Victorian invention give Joe what he really wants? When Joe Hopkins boards a ferry to go on holiday, he doesn't expect to find himself shipwrecked. But by the time he washes up on a Cornish beach, he knows he has slipped into the past again. Victorian England is quite different to how he imagined: few of the great inventions of the age have reached the fishing village where Lucy lives. When Joe has the chance to try out the latest technology – photography – he jumps at it. Can it give him the thing he has desired for so long, a picture of his dearest friend that he can keep? And will the camera prove once and for all that he was there beside her? "The Shimmer on the Glass" is the sixth book in The Scar Gatherer series, seven adventures for 8 to 12 year olds...

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

What if freedom wasn't something you could take for granted? What if you had to fight for it? If there's one thing Joe Hopkins knows better than anyone, it's that the past can be very uncomfortable. But life in wealthy Georgian Bristol seems surprisingly civilized. Lucy's house is light and airy, and there are sandwiches and tea with sugar. He soon discovers, however, that this civility is only skin deep: Lucy's family is shockingly involved in slavery. When he meets the African slaves her father has brought back from Jamaica, Joe swiftly finds there are other people in the house who are determined to see them gone, and to profit from their disappearance. Can Joe and Lucy save the slaves from the horrifying fate that threatens them? And can Joe make Lucy see that freedom is what matters most? "Slaves for the Isabella" is the fifth book in The Scar...

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

If you know how the Great Fire of London starts, you can stop it from happening . . . can't you? Joe Hopkins has been visiting the Tower of London when he slips through time. He finds himself in a city which is dirty, dark and chaotic. Relieved to be welcomed once more into Lucy's home, he is horrified to find the Great Plague has killed half her family. Worse still, another great danger looms, a danger only Joe can see. With his knowledge of the Great Fire of London, he knows he must try and stop it from happening. But before he can, he stumbles across another plot more deadly to England than the fire itself. "The Demon in the Embers" is the fourth book in The Scar Gatherer series.

Genres: General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Life doesn't give us many second chances. One autumn evening, almost fourteen years after she vanished from his life, Daniel catches a glimpse of his childhood sweetheart. Having seen her, he finds he cannot forget her again. When Daniel Matlock's proposal to his girlfriend is rejected, his world is turned upside down. Hoping to make a fresh start, he leaves London and returns to the place where he spent his summer holidays as a boy, in the heart of the New Forest. Too late, he realises that the success of his new life depends on finding Hetty, his childhood friend and first love. But nobody seems to remember her. Only when he meets Matthias Werner, a former officer in the Luftwaffe, does he begin to piece together what happened to her. But his search for her has unexpected consequences, and brings him into conflict with someone who will stop at...

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

The key that unlocks Lucy's world has a dangerous power. It's Easter Saturday, and Joe Hopkins is out riding with his brother. When his horse throws him off, he lands, quite literally, in Tudor England. Joe has learned about the Tudors at school. But if he thinks that will help him, he soon discovers that he knows both too little and too much. He doesn't realise that by giving Lucy his St. Christopher, he is putting her in danger. And when it is taken from her, he faces even greater peril to get it back. "The Falconer's Quarry" is the third book in The Scar Gatherer series.

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

What can you do when your closest friend lives hundreds of years away? Joe Hopkins is staying in York for October half-term. He hasn’t seen Lucy since the beginning of September and he’s really missing her. But when at last he slips through time again, he’s alarmed to find himself in a different world altogether. This isn’t Roman Britain. It’s Jorvik, in the age of the Vikings. “Saving the Unicorn’s Horn” is the second book in The Scar Gatherer series, seven time-travel adventures for 8 to 12 year olds. The first book is “The Leopard in the Golden Cage”.

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 8-11

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to travel back in time? Joe Hopkins isn't expecting to go anywhere in particular. But while he's visiting the ruins of a Roman palace, he suddenly slips through time and finds himself back in Roman Britain. What starts out as an interesting afternoon becomes an adventure, and then a fascination. In the end, it will change his whole life. "The Leopard in the Golden Cage" is the first of seven books for 8 to 12 year olds which will bring Joe face to face with Vikings, smugglers, and the bombers of the Second World War Blitz.