Philip Ardagh

The first book in a hilarious, action-packed trilogy. Eddie Dickens is sent off to stay with his aunt and uncle and a riotously funny comedy of errors ensues. When both Eddie Dickens's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house, Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud. . . . This hilarious historical spoof, the first in the Eddie Dickens trilogy, has been called "a scrumptious cross between Dickens and Monty Python."

Book One in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy

A House Called Awful End

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Tove Jansson

'It's the most wonderful valley in the world.' - MoomintrollStep into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful and unique book; a fun, fascinating and unprecedented look at the wonderful world of the Moomins and their creator, Tove Jansson.Filled with illustrated maps and family trees, facts about Moomintroll behaviour and habits, this book contains all you could wish to know about the beloved characters from the original Moomin stories and the world in which they live. Find out all about Moomintroll's adventures, Moominmamma's handbag and Moominpappa's diary and meet the extended Moomin family including Snork Maiden, Snufkin, Sniff and Little My.This book also takes you behind the studio door of the uniquely talented, Tove Jansson. Featuring original Moomin drawings, colour studies and stunning character sketches as well as family photographs and Tove's childhood drawings.Written by award-winning children's author Philip Ardagh with contributions from best-selling children's author, screenwriter and Moomin devotee, Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley is a highly illustrated, beautifully designed gift book for all Moomin fans to treasure.

The World of Moominvalley

The Moomins

When Fergal McNally's brain is stolen from Sacred Heart Hospital, the other McNally children find their way into the Fishbone Forest and a gloomy mansion where a teddy-bear-clutching mastermind threatens to take over the world. Reprint.

Or Four Legs Good

Heir of Mystery

María Alonso Seisdedos

El mundo del Valle de los Mumin

Axel Scheffler

Wenn Philip Ardagh, Axel Scheffler und Harry Rowohlt aufeinandertreffen, kann nichts anderes dabei herauskommen, als ein haarsträubendes Abenteuer mit schrägen Figuren, irrwitzigen Wendungen und urkomischem Witz. Köstliche Unterhaltung in allerbester Dick & Doof-Manier, anarchischer Nonsense wie Kinder ihn lieben. Hier kommt die wohl SELTSAMSTE Familie aller Zeiten ...! Herr und Frau Grunz sind griesgrämig, grummelig, grunzend blöd und so stinkig, dass man sie bereits zehn Meter gegen den Wind riecht. Aber keine Bange: Ihr Sohn ist nicht ganz so seltsam. Mal abgesehen von den schiefen Ohren, den zu Berge stehenden Haaren und dem ollen blauen Kleid. Sohnemann ist sogar ziemlich helle und auf Zack. Höflich, hilfsbereit, mitfühlend. So ganz und gar anders als Herr und Frau Grunz. Und deshalb fragt er sich völlig zu Recht: KÖNNEN DAS WIRKLICH MEINE ELTERN SEIN???!! Schon ist Sohnemann mittendrin in einer abenteuerlichen Elternsuche, die irrwitzigste Wendungen nimmt ...

Roman für Kinder

Familie Grunz hat Ärger

Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.

Book Two in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy

Dreadful Acts

Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America.

Book Three in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy

Terrible Times

In their third and final adventure, the McNally children meet Lionel Lyons, who asks their help to fix problems that were created by time travelers.

The Third Unlikely Exploit

The Rise of the House of McNally

When Le Fay McNally becomes a finalist in the "Tap 'n' Type" typewriting competition, she and her four unusual siblings stay at the Dell Hotel, where they encounter joy, tragedy, and a variety of interesting characters.

The First Unlikely Exploit

The Fall of Fergal

Meet Mr and Mrs Grunt. They're not that bad. No, actually, they ARE. Maybe worse, even. But Sunny, their sort-of son, is okay. They stole him from a washing line as a baby. He was hanging by his ears, which probably explains why they're so wonky.

The Grunts All at Sea

David Roberts

The pint-sized hero of the bestselling Eddie Dickens Trilogy is back in Dubious Deeds, the first of his Further Adventures. This time he's many miles from home in the highly unlikely highlands of Victorian Scotland, embroiled in a ridiculous tale of deceit and double-dealing.

Dubious Deeds

In this, the third and final of The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens, our saucer-eyed hero Eddie Dickens finds himself embroiled in an attempt to foil a plot to steal an oil painting of Mad Uncle Jack, mistakenly commissioned by the War Office (who thought he was the other Major Dickens). Add to this the explosive mix of Even Madder Aunt Maud and Annabelle, the baby pet crocodile she now leads around on a silver chain; Dr Samuel Moot, besotted by Maud since a young man, having once shot Mad Uncle Jack (twice) in a duel; Gherkin a professional dwarf; Eddie's Uncle Alfie and surfeit of heather; and all the usual suspects (including Malcolm, of course) . . . and you're in for another slice of the ridiculous served up in the way that only Ardagh can.

Final Curtain

In this, the third and final of Philip Ardagh's Unlikely Exploits, the down-trodden McNally family are down-trodden no more. They're quite the opposite, in fact: stinking rich with plans to put the money to good use whilst others, of course, may have different ideas. This is the Unlikely Exploit in which we discover the remaining McNally children's hidden powers. This is the Unlikely Exploit in which we discover the reasons behind the outbreak of holes riddling the country. This is the Unlikely Exploit in which we discover why the late lamented Mr Maggs had a walking teddy bear and just what its plans are. This is the book Fergal fans have been waiting for...

The Rise of the House of McNally, Or, About Time Too

From the creator of the best selling 'Eddie Dickens Trilogy', this is Book One of a darkly hilarious second trilogy, charting the extraordinary changes in fortunes of the down-trodden McNally family. The setting is an unidentified country, suffering from an unexpected outbreak of very large holes. The McNally children find themselves in The Dell hotel surrounded by a strange assortment of ridiculous characters ranging from Charlie 'Twinkle Toes' Tweedy the house detective, to Mr. Peach, a ventriloquist with a conveniently-large moustache. With young Fergal McNally falling to his death on page one, the only way for the McNallys is up. Expect the unexpected with Philip Ardagh pulling out all the stops that make this fiction so unique and so absurd.

Awful End

After a serious accident involving a gorse bush, Eddie Dickens finds himself being cared for by monks of the Bertian order, founded by Ethelbert the Funny, and with absolutely no memory of who he is.

Horrendous Habits

In the third instalment of the Eddie Dickens saga, our hero finds himself en route to North America with some of the most disreputable prospectors anyone might have the misfortune to share a berth with . . . only to come face to face with some familiar faces (stuffed animal and human) from his past, and with the Great Gretcha who suffers from serious bouts of sleeping sickness.

Eddie Dickens, Mad Uncle Jack, and Malcolm are back together again for another round of high-paced, dangerous adventures in the illustrated sequel to A House Called Awful End. Reprint.

In The - Not - So - Very - Nice - Goings - On at Victoria Lodge, Philip Ardagh took illustrations from The Girl's Own Paper of the 1890s and used them to tell a brand new tale of intrigue with hilarious results. Now he's at it again, but this time with the original Sherlock Holmes illustrations from The Strand Magazine, to bring The Silly Side of Sherlock Holmes to bathrooms across the nation. A true fan of Sherlock Holmes, Philip Ardagh has always felt that Holmes's humorous side has been largley ignored. The Silly Side of Sherlock Holmes doesn nothing to redress the balance. It's a shameless piece of frivolous fun, which, under test conditions, produced everything from suppressed chortles to out-and-out guffaws. Ideal for everyone from Sherlock Holmes fans to people who quite like reading silly captions. Sometimes. A hilarious look at the little - known side of the great dectective The - Not - So - Very - Nice - Goings - On at Victoria Lodge sold over 23,000 copies Even greater sales potential for this title - there are vast numbers of Sherlock Holmes fans and this title will be the perfect Christmas gift for all of them

A Brand New Adventure Using a Bunch of Old Pictures

The Silly Side of Sherlock Holmes

The Pharaoh& ’ s stolen treasure /I is a gripping mystery adventure set in Ancient Egypt & – where you have to unmask the thief and find the missing treasure. There are clues to spot, suspects to follow and questions that need answers& … & … answers that can be found earlier in the pages of Ancient Egypt /I - a fact-filled record of life in those fascinating times & – with full-color illustrations reconstructing life in the past, and photographs of the evidence the Egyptians left behind.

Philip Ardagh

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