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R.A. Spratt
Friday Barnes hits New York City in this latest instalment of the bestselling detective series.
When Princess Ingrid is kidnapped, along with her fiancee, Binky Pelly, it's all over the…
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Friday Barnes is Europe's most wanted in this latest instalment of the bestselling detective series.
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Charming, funny and absurdly good - find out where it all began in the prequel to The Adventures of Nanny Piggins.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE GREATEST STORY ABOUT A FARMYARD…
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Nanny Piggins, the world’s most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael…
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Bedtime has never been so bonkers! The ultimate collection of short stories from the irrepressibly funny author of Friday Barnes.
From the bestselling author and host of the hugely popular…
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In book five of her enthralling adventures, Nanny Piggins discovers some startling truths about the ruthless Ringmaster, provides counselling to a Molavadinian princess with pre-wedding jitters, inadvertently wins a Nobel…
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Justice served with extra chocolate sauce. Nanny Piggins gets in trouble with the law after some illicit tight rope walking, and is sentenced to 5000 hours community service. But she…
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Nanny Piggins tames a lion and a lion tamer. She revolutionises the sport of ski jumping, introduces hot-pink leotards to the local Neighbourhood Watch, demonstrates trapeze skills on a moving…
When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan to remarry, his children are horrified at the thought of losing their beloved Nanny Piggins.
When Mr Green is held against his will by a grateful nation of Pacific Islanders, it is up to Nanny Piggins to rush to the tropical paradise and rescue him…
Derrick, Samantha and Michael should be in school. Instead they find themselves in NASA’s space shuttle, which Nanny Piggins manages to accidentally launch, blasting them all into outer space. This…
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A vote for Piggins is a vote for cake!
In this riveting eighth instalment of Nanny Piggins’ adventures, she sets out…
Crime is afoot in the city of love!
When April, Finn and Joe Peski come home from school one day to find their mother missing, they are forced to go and live with their dad. They haven’t seen…
No one believes April saw an enormous bear in the woods. No one thinks Fin didn’t break the Cat Lady’s foot. No one wants to know why Loretta bought Dad…
Chaos parachutes into Currawong when the annual Mud Run hits town. The Peski kids are soon swept up in the festivities. Or in April’s case, strapped to a vision-impaired competitor…
Friday Barnes is being attacked on all fronts!
School camp … what could possibly go wrong?
Headmasters behaving badly!
Friday’s time at Highcrest is running out!
Trouble on the Arctic tundra!
Piranhas on the run, stolen sandwiches, chocolate waterfalls and so much more!
From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes, comes this collection of twenty short stories perfect for fans…
A lovestruck merpig, a peppermint-stick Parthenon, a vegetarian spider and so much more!
From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes and Shockingly Good Stories, comes this collection of twenty…
Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven - year - old girl! When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery she uses the reward money to send herself to…
Who knew boarding school could be this perilous! When Friday Barnes cracked the case of Highcrest Academy’s mysterious swamp - yeti, the last thing she expected was to be placed…
Friday Barnes has a new case, and this time it’s personal! When Friday’s father turns up out of the blue, he brings his daughter some distressing news - Friday’s mother…
Friday Barnes stands accused! Can she prove her innocence?
It’s two years later … Friday steps out of prison, a shell of her former self.
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Crime is afoot in the city of love! Someone stole the Mona Lisa. Okay, it was over a hundred years ago, but a recently uncovered letter reveals that the thief…
What if every clue points in the wrong direction? Friday Barnes has been deported to Switzerland! With their in - school detective gone, Highcrest Academy has descended into chaos. Someone’s…
Funny, shocking and brilliant- from bestselling author R. A. Spratt, a whip-smart take on Shakespearean moral dilemmas Selby hates homework. She would rather watch TV - anything to escape the…
The seventh book in the bestselling Friday Barnes detective series!
Friday Barnes is being attacked on all fronts! When Friday Barnes gets involved in her frenemy Ian Wainscott’s family dispute, it appears her knack for uncovering the truth may ruin…
School camp … what could possibly go wrong? Friday Barnes is forced to face her biggest fear - her own emotions! She must wave goodbye to Ian as he takes…
Friday Barnes is back with a new mystery to be solved. It’s two years later … Friday steps out of prison, a shell of her former self. She’s still wearing…
The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who could not fall in love with a Nanny whose only job qualifications are her astonishing ability…
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Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an 11-year-old girl!
When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding…
Watch out Santa, Nanny Piggins is coming to town this Christmas!
This is not a survival guide to Christmas…
Funny, shocking and brilliant: from bestselling author R. A. Spratt, a whip-smart take on Shakespearean moral dilemmas.
Dinosaurs will be glad they’re extinct once they’ve had a visit from The Peski Kids!
The annual geography excursion was supposed to be educational, but with The Peski Kids on…
A Nanny with trotters! Nanny Piggins, the world’s most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children…
More mysteries abound in Book 3 of this middle-grade series about a genius girl detective who solves crimes at her boarding school.
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