Bøker av Martin Stewart

Meet ocean explorer Sandy Fin, silver-scaled diver of the deep, puzzler of puzzles and hero of a new madcap middle grade series from Martin Stewart, illustrated in black and white.

Bridget Vanderpuff is the Best Worst Baker in the World. A recipe for fun with villainy, cake and sprinkles of silliness, heart and hope. Bridget and Tom travel to Butterälp to stay with Vivienne Velvete - the world's finest chocolatier. But a horrifying monster is terrorising the villagers and the chocolate festival has been shut down. What's more, Le Choc - the world's most perfect bar of chocolate, kept in an alarmed, triple-locked room - has been chomped! Bridget and Tom must trace a track of confuddling clues and unravel their most fiendish plot yet.

Bridget Vanderpuff sets sail for Paris on another action-packed adventure, cracking codes in the museums and the secret bakers' network.Someone has stolen Mr Vanderpuff's golden whisk!If Bridget and her new friend Stacy don't find it by midnight, the world's best baker will never mix again.And - as the girls chase a chain of impossible puzzles through the secrets and shadows of Paris - Tom and Pascal find skulduggery afoot in Belle-on-Sea.Can Bridget and her friends crack the case and save the bake shop in time?

Robbie Gould is not psychic. Of course he isn't - that's not a real thing. So why is a woman standing in his driveway begging him for help in finding her son, who she's convinced has been kidnapped? Join Gould as he plunges into a bizarre world of rare whisky, drug dealers, bent cops, social influencers and yakuza mobsters to uncover the truth.

It is the Night Before the Night Before the Night of the Hungry Ghosts Munchathon and Bridget and Tom are excited. They've never seen a parade before. And Lord Dare, the new Earl of Bomberton Hall, and reigning World Hide-and-Seek Champion, has invited them to tea.But Mr Vanderpuff is in trouble - he needs a new creation, and he's totally stumped. To make matters worse, the salty old seadog, Captain Lufty, and his rat, Barry, have warned that something is coming to Belle-on-Sea. Something terrible.When a ghost train is seen rattling into town, and people start to go missing - first the librarian, then the Mayor - Bridget begins tracking the train's tracks, delighted to be in the thick of another mystery. Then the unthinkable happens: the ghost train takes Mr Vanderpuff! Someone - or something - is out to destroy Belle-on-Sea. But they've forgotten one important detail. This is Bridget's town. Bridget must save the missing people from their perilous prisons, rescue the parade, and come up with an idea for Mr Vanderpuff's Hungry Ghosts bake, before it's too late.

The first in a new madcap, hilarious series about Bridget Vanderpuff, whipsmart inventor and amateur sleuth with a taste for adventure. It's a recipe for fun with mystery, villainy, cake and sprinkles of silliness, heart and hope.Bridget Baxter is the very last orphan at the Orphanage for Errant Childs, left at the mercy of the awful Miss Acrid and her foul-smelling fish sandwiches. Miss Acrid's mission is to make Bridget's life a misery. But Bridget is more than a match for her.When kindly Mr Vanderpuff arrives at the Orphanage in search of a child to care for, Bridget thinks her luck has finally turned. Mr Vanderpuff is the village baker, and his shop is a world of wonders. But they soon discover that Bridget is absolutely terrible at baking. When Miss Acrid returns for the ultimate revenge, Bridget must open the Locked and Secret Door, navigate Miss Acrid's spiderweb of booby traps and use her unique baking skills to save herself - and Mr Vanderpuff - from certain disaster.Join Bridget as she dons her chef whites and gets the kwassongs at the ready... Baking isn't such a piece of cake.

Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. But then everything changes. One night his father is possessed by a dark spirit, and Wull hears that a cure lurks deep within the great sea-beast known as the mormorach. He realizes he must go on an epic journey downriver to find it - or lose Pappa forever.