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Mark Anchovy: pizza delivery boy and private detective is on a new mission - to Japan!'Hilarious and exciting' The Scotsman'LOVE this proper funny series ... Funny, fast-paced adventure with loads of cheese (the good kind!)' Pamela ButchartColin Kingsley, AKA Mark Anchovy, has a lot on his plate. And it's not just fishy pizza . . .The pizza delivery boy turned detective is in Japan to track down Lord Bobo, an English gameshow host whois missing. Worryingly, a bloodthirsty butler is after him. More worryingly, he has a new apprentice to train: his sister, Alicia.Has the world's busiest pizza detective bitten off more than he can chew?Read more of the Mark Anchovy adventures for fast-paced and food-filled hilarity:MARK ANCHOVY: PIZZA DETECTIVE - out now!MARK ANCHOVY: WAR AND PIZZA - out now!

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The Bind charts the rise and fall of Egret Bindings, once the most prestigious firm of bookbinders in London.In 1910 brothers Guy and Victor Egret take on an ambitious commission: a deluxe, jewelled binding of a collection of poems, A Moonless Land. It proves to be a moment of hubris. The work triggers their ruin, watched by the disapproving spirit of their father, Garrison Egret.A darkly humorous tale of sibling rivalry and creative one-upmanship, The Bind shows once again that William Goldsmith is an incomparable storyteller and a marvellously inventive artist.

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Mark Anchovy: pizza delivery boy and private detective is off to Russia . . .'Hilarious and exciting' The Scotsman'LOVE this proper funny series ... Funny, fast-paced adventure with loads of cheese (the good kind!)' Pamela ButchartPosted to Russia on a school exchange programme, he must find a missing casket of jewelled egg cups. His only lead is a frail ex-detective called Swirly Ben. Who happens to be on the hit list of a jewel thief called Heidi Hyde High. On top of all that, crusty Mr Hogstein is directing the school play. Oh, and Colin's sister Alicia has found out what 'extra anchovies' really means.Read more of the Mark Anchovy adventures for fast-paced and food-filled hilarity:MARK ANCHOVY: PIZZA DETECTIVEMARK ANCHOVY: PIZZA POWER

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Meet Mark Anchovy: pizza delivery boy and private detective!'Hilarious and exciting' The Scotsman'LOVE this proper funny series ... Funny, fast-paced adventure with loads of cheese (the good kind!)' Pamela ButchartColin Kingsley is a pizza delivery boy with a twist. He's actually an aspiring detective. But in sleepy Rufflington-on-Sea, there are no cases to solve - until the Golden Spatula League come calling. The world's premier agency for 'caterer-detectives', run by children, the G.S.L. have been dazzled by Colin's freakish memory skills.To join their ranks, Colin - codenamed 'Mark Anchovy' - must fly to Rome to track down a valuable stolen painting, titled, 'Girl With A Squirrel'. The chief suspect: Big Alan Fresco, notorious art thief and pizza addict. It's the toughest, most pizza-ry mystery the G.S.L. have ever encountered.Read more of the Mark Anchovy adventures for fast-paced and food-filled hilarity:MARK ANCHOVY: WAR AND PIZZAMARK ANCHOVY: PIZZA POWER

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