Paul Chequer

Richard grabs the chance to change from a boffin into a Mr Cool when everyone at school thinks he’s been killed. Then a fire at his house, after a wild party, starts him thinking that there’s more to him than his image. That’s when he learns to be himself!

In his quest to find his father, Will is plunged even deeper underground. As if things weren't bad enough already in the heat and darkness, he stumbles across a Styx plot with terrible implications for the world above.

Best friends Charlie and Stef have taken up new hobbies but when a friend is ripped off by a conman they have to learn another skill.

Will Burrows and Chester find themselves in perilous circumstances after a long fall down the subterranean Pore. They land on a giant spongy fungus stuffed with artefacts from a lost golden age, but they are not alone!

Fourteen year old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. The only bond he shares with his father is a passion for archaeological excavation. When his father mysteriously vanishes, Will feels he has to dig up the truth behind his disappearance.