R. M McLeod
1) Drop Zone
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Set in the English Lake District, Abigail, Imogen and Ross, the young heroes of the story, are enjoying a well-deserved holiday when they accidentally become involved with a group of drug smugglers. The smugglers, a far from friendly group of men, have a hideout in the workings of a long disused copper-mine and the trio are set to have some hair-raising adventures, and put themselves at considerable risk, as they find themselves fighting for their...
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The second book in the Charlie Braithwaite series finds our young English hero at home in his bedroom. It is a boring, wet afternoon, when suddenly his old friend the arch wizard Argetlám appears on his computer screen. At first delighted by the return of his friend, he soon discovers that the wizard has a job for him that is both extremely dangerous and possibly, crucially important to the freedom of everyone living in modern Britain if not the...
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Henry Harrison is twelve-years-old and something of a minor tearaway. He is also, quite incorrectly, the prime suspect of the armed robbery of a market trader and, as the novel begins, on the run from the law.
Anxious to clear his name, he finds midnight sanctuary, illegally, in the home of a retired professor of physics, but rather than immediately hand him over to the police, the professor listens to his trespasser's tale with some sympathy and...
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A magical adventure story featuring the English schoolboy Charlie Braithwaite as, with the friends he made in the adventure 'The Witches of Lewthan Mountain', he once again sets off to the witch infested Darklands in search of a thief and an elfin king's quite priceless, stolen crown
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The long-awaited sequel to 'The Theft of the Crown of Bodran'. Enraged by the loss of the stolen crown, the seriously unpleasant giant — Botan, who was so cleverly duped by Charlie and his friends when they retrieved King Bodran's treasured crown, is back, and this time, meaner than ever, he wants revenge!
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Always fascinated by magic, eleven year old Charlie Braithwaite buys a book of wizardry from the village hall bring and buy sale. It is an old book, written hundreds of years before he was even born and as soon as he takes the volume home he sets out to discover if the spells it contains really do work.
They do, his cat can bark, his dog meow and Charlie is having great fun; but when he has a visit from the book's author, the wizard — Argetlám,...
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The Carrington children are on holiday in the English Lake District when they discover an injured badger cub lying in a ditch. The animal is cared for by their host, the owner of their holiday home and a former vet. When the injured beast is at last ready to be returned to the wild, the children learn of a plot by badger-baiters to dig out the local sett and use the animals in their violent, evil and extremely gruesome pastime.
Immediately the children...