How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good by Emma Barnes

Paperback (cover by Emma Chichester Clark)
ISBN:978-1905537-28-0
Price:£6.99
Publication date: August

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How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good, tells the delightful and very funny story of Martha Bones.

Ever since she bit Santa when she was six months old, it’s been downhill all the way for Martha. She is horrible to her baby brother, Boris, elder sister, Sally, and her parents are in despair.
Far away from earth, Martha’s behaviour comes to the attention of the Interstellar Agency, whose aim
is to make bad children good. Fred, an Interstellar agent with a poor track record is sent to Earth as
Martha’s guardian agent. His mission…to make Martha good, but Martha has other ideas…

Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher by Emma Barnes

“A refreshing variation on the witches and wizards that now crowd children’s fiction”: The Sunday Times

Paperback (new edition with cover by Emma Chichester Clark)
ISBN: 978-1905537-30-3
Price: £6.99
Publication: August

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Imagine if your mother was a witch!
‘Jessica thought for the thousandth time it was a terrible nuisance having a witch for a mother.
Other people’s mothers had sensible hobbies. They did not go around pretending they could charm warts, or offer potions for ingrowing toe-nails.
Nor did they dress up in long black capes and practice incantations in the back garden!’
Jessica thinks she has the most embarrassing mother in the universe. At least she has always been able to keep her mother’s peculiar hobby a secret, but all that changes when Mrs. Haggerthwaite announces that she’s turning professional.
Jessica is determined to be a famous scientist one day and having a witch for a relative will do her no good at all. She becomes a “Witch Dispatcher” determined to thwart her mother’s plans…

Emma Barnes

Award-winning author, Emma Barnes, grew up in Edinburgh.

Her books have been translated into several languages, and broadcast on BBC Radio.She regularly visits schools, libraries and festivals, sharing her passion for books and reading.

Books by Emma Barnes:

How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good: (August 2011)

Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher:(New edition: August 2011)

Gillian Philip

Gillian Philip was born in Glasgow and has been writing all her life, starting with short but frenetic novels about Captain Scarlet and The Man From UNCLE (having massive crushes on both). She has worked as a barmaid, theatre usherette, record store assistant, radio presenter, typesetter and political assistant to a parliamentary candidate. While living in Barbados, where her steadiest job was as a singer in an Irish bar, she took up writing professionally.

Her most recent novel, Firebrand, was chosen as The Times Teenage Book of the Year, and has garnered widespread critical acclaim.

Books by Gillian Philip: Bad Faith

Firebrand: Book One in the Rebel Angels Series

Bloodstone:Book Two in the Rebel Angels Series (2011)

Janne Teller

Janne Teller is a Danish novelist of Austrian-German descent. She has lived and worked all over the world and now divides her time between Copenhagen, New York and Paris.

She has published several best-selling and award winning novels, and her literature has been widely translated.

Nothing, by Janne Teller will be published by Strident in August 2011. It has been described as; “provocative”, “challenging”, “brutal” and “gorgeously lyrical”. More information will be available soon.

Nothing is the winner of: Le Prix Libbylit 2008, and the Best Children’s Book Prize awarded by the Danish Cultural Ministry.

Books by Janne Teller: Nothing

Portrait of Janne Teller copyright: Morten Holtum Nielsen