The seventh Adventuremice title is available from British and Irish bookshops now! In Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth the team board an ill-advised tunelling machine and travel into the depths of the earth, where they find a whole lost world inhabited by cavemice, ptiny pterosaurs, and the terrifying* Hamstersaurus rex. (It's inspired by Jules Verne, of course, and by shabby old sci-fi films like At The Earth's Core .) My excellent co-author Sarah McIntyre's watercolour illustrations are going from strength to strength, and her pictures for this new book are wonderful. You can check them out in her online shop , and even buy some originals if you fancy. ( Adventuremice Christmas cards are also available.) I like to think the books are going from strength to strength too. It can be a little frustrating writing a series, because after the first book you're almost never eligible for awards, and seldom get noticed by reviewers. I'm told that The Bookseller , t...
Eagle-eyed visitors to Amazon may have noticed that there's a new Mortal Engines story in the offing . Bridge of Storms is a sequel to last year's Thunder City , and it will be published by Scholastic in the UK and US on 12th February 2026. The story picks up a few months after Thunder City ended, and involves Tamzin and her friends helping a small university city called Museion across the wilds of Europe. Since Tamzin's era of the Mortal Engines world is slightly more genteel than what comes later, Museion is actually hoping to be eaten by London. But it's not that genteel, so in order to reach London's hunting grounds Museion will have to evade a band of motorised nomads and a very sinister suburb, while Tamzin gets to confront an old enemy. The text was finished a while ago, since I was under the impression that it would be published this year, so I've already had time to write a third book in the series, which I hope will appear in 2027. More on Brid...