Middle Grade Adventure Panel:Jennifer Bell & Lizzie-Huxley Jones-Kensington

Join us on the May Bank Holiday as we welcome Jennifer Bell (Magicalia: Race of Wonders) and Lizzie Huxley-Jones (Vivi Conway and the Haunted Quest) to the shop to discuss all things adventure! They will be talking about their new books, their writing process and answering your questions - followed by a book signing.

Magicalia - From the internationally bestselling author of Wonderscape and The Uncommoners, comes a spectacular new fantasy series inspired by astronomy, science and Pokémon... When her dad is kidnapped, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful beastiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become conjurors themselves, before following a trail of clues that will take them from London to India to Paris, in a race to rescue Bitsy’s dad from a mysterious villain…

Vivi Conway and the Haunted Quest - Fizzing with the glorious adventure of a high-stakes treasure hunt, the second instalment in Huxley-Jones' brilliant Vivi Conway series finds the titular heroine and her friends celebrating Dara's birthday and Halloween at an island cottage in Wales. But, little do they know, they are about to be thrown into a huge high-stakes treasure hunt, with the fate of the world resting on them (again). And Vivi’s feeling that Arawn is just waiting to reappear is only growing stronger...