WIN $150 GIFT VOUCHERS: ALADDIN'S GOLD
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- I've loved the Murder Most Unladylike series, which is a cross between Agatha Christie and Enid Blyton, so it's a pleasure to revisit that world, this time starring May Wong (Hazel's half-sister) during WWII. May would like to return home to Hong Kong and the best way to do that is for the war to end. She knows that children make the best spies and along with her friend Eric, applies to join the Ministry of Unladylike Activity in order to hasten the war's end. But when they’re turned away, they decide to investigate the Verey family, who they suspect are passing on secrets... of course, they are going discover more than they bargain for! May is a wonderful drawn character whose feistiness is counterpointed by Eric's sensitivity and commonsense. Great fun, for ages 8-13 (and a few adults too!) Lindy
The start of a thrilling new World War Two mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.
Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher. Robin is now a full-time author, and her books are both award-winning and bestselling. She lives in Oxford.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- I've loved the Murder Most Unladylike series, which is a cross between Agatha Christie and Enid Blyton, so it's a pleasure to revisit that world, this time starring May Wong (Hazel's half-sister) during WWII. May would like to return home to Hong Kong and the best way to do that is for the war to end. She knows that children make the best spies and along with her friend Eric, applies to join the Ministry of Unladylike Activity in order to hasten the war's end. But when they’re turned away, they decide to investigate the Verey family, who they suspect are passing on secrets... of course, they are going discover more than they bargain for! May is a wonderful drawn character whose feistiness is counterpointed by Eric's sensitivity and commonsense. Great fun, for ages 8-13 (and a few adults too!) Lindy
