Gareth Jones
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Biography
Gareth P Jones is an award winning children’s author based in South East London. His first book, The Dragon Detective Agency: The Case Of The Missing Cats was published January 2007 and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. He then wrote three more books in the series, The Case Of The Wayward Professor, The Case Of The Vanished Sea Dragon and The Case Of The Stolen Film.
His first stand-alone book, The Thornthwaite Inheritance, was published in July 2009 and went on to win numerous local book prizes. This was followed by Space Crime Conspiracy and The Considine Curse, which won the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2012.
As well as writing a story for Barrington Stoke called Perry’s 5, Gareth has an ongoing series of books for Stripes called Ninja Meerkats.
Gareth juggles being an author with regular school visits, occasional bouts of TV producing, playing at being father and husband and strumming a whole host of stringed instruments. He does not, however, juggle.
Nominations and Awards:
The Dragon Detective Agency: The Case Of The Missing Cats was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize.
The Thornthwaite Inheritance was shortlisted for eleven local book awards and won seven of them.
The Considine Curse was voted Blue Peter Book of the Year 2012.
Chicken vs Egg (2026)
Have you ever wondered which came first – the chicken or the egg? Get ready for the ultimate showdown in this race to the finish line and, finally, an answer to this age-old philosophical question!
With Chicken’s obvious advantage, Egg’s surprising capabilities, and a pesky Fox with his own agenda, it’s anyone’s guess who will cross the line first. Will Chicken be able to outfox the competition? But wait, there’s a twist! Egg is hatching and a new runner is about to enter the race!
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One puzzling mystery. Several slippery suspects. Endless possibilities!
Welcome to Haventry, a town where the ordinary and extraordinary collide! With ghosts, werewolves and zombies living side by side, trouble is always brewing. And when a fiendish crime is committed,?YOU?are the detective in charge of the case.
All aboard the Transylvanian Express! YOU and your yeti boss Klaus are headed to Castle Ursprung, home of the infamous vampire Count Fledermaus. But before you get there, you have a mystery to solve: Night Mayor Franklefink has vanished from the train.
Someone onboard must have played a role in his disappearance but who has the strongest motive? Could it be Franklefink’s archnemesis Bramwell Stoker? Or is Sandra Rigmarole, elf District Governor and colleague of the Night Mayor, a more likely suspect? Or perhaps Franklefink’s monster wife has suddenly turned against him? YOU decide!
With hundreds of paths to choose from and no dead ends, you’ll solve the mystery every time!
Rabunzel has a teeny tufty tail, a twitchy nose and two wide brown eyes. She also has VERY long ears – so long that her mother worries they will make her easy bait for the hungry creatures of the forest.
The answer? Rabunzel must be kept safe … in towering hutch, high in the sky. Here Rabunzel waits grumpily for her mother’s daily visit with carrots and fresh lettuce, letting down her ears so she can climb up the tower.
But one day, it isn’t her mother who climbs up Rabunzel’s very long ears..
Holly is desperate to be sleuthing with her partner-in-solving-crime, dragon Dirk Dilly, but instead she’s stuck at her exclusive boarding school for children of the rich and famous. She’s determined to escape, until she meets Callum, the son of the Prime Minister, who claims he was kidnapped by dragons a year ago and hasn’t been the same since. And when Dirk’s own investigation into dragon activity brings him to the school, the two cases collide. What if Callum isn’t as crazy as he seems?
Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite have been trying to kill each other for so long that neither twin can remember which act of attempted murder came first. But whoever struck first, trying to take each other’s lives is simply what they do. Until one day a lawyer arrives at their house to take stock of its contents, and his accompanying son attracts their attention. Soon a new battle evolves – one in which the twins have to work together to solve the mystery of their parents’ deaths. Can Lorelli and Ovid overcome their old animosities, and will they ever get to finish that game of chess?
