Jess Kidd

Nine-year-old Alfie Blackstack's parents have met a very unfortunate end. Now he's living in the super creepy Switherbroom Hall with his mad-haired Aunt Gertie and warty Aunt Zita. The thing is, Alfie's aunts aren't just weird - they're witches!

When the circus arrives in town Alfie makes his first ever friend, the fearless Calypso Fagan. But when Calypso's little sister Nova disappears, they must face the terrifying Head Witch in a race to find Nova and stop the next Witch War.

When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, on Ireland's west coast, he brings only a photograph of his long-lost mother, and a determination to do battle with the village's lies. No one though, living or dead, will be able to guess what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby.

Maud Drennan - carer and unintentional psychic - is the latest in a long line of dogsbodies for the belligerent Cathal Flood. As Maud is drawn into the mysteries concealed in his filthy, once-grand home, she realises that Cathal, and the junk-filled rooms, are opening up to her. With only her landlady and a troop of sarcastic ghostly saints to help, Maud must uncover what lies beneath Cathal's decades-old hostility, and the strange activities of the house itself.

London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. But Christabel is no ordinary child. She is not supposed to exist. As Bridie fights to recover the stolen child she enters a world of fanatical anatomists, crooked surgeons and mercenary showmen.