• Poems from Teesside Primary Schools Two hundred and fifty years ago Middlesbrough-born James Cook sailed around the world on HMS Endeavour on a voyage of scientific discovery. In this anniversary year, the T-Junction poetry festival is celebrating Teesside's long international history by focusing on travel and discovery. As part of the festival, children in local primary schools have been writing their own poems about exploration and adventure, inspired by poets Bob Beagrie, Andy Willoughby, Julie Hogg, Chris Stewart, Harry Man, Natalie Scott and Andy Croft.
  • A summer holiday adventure in Whitby, legendary home of Count Dracula… what could be more exciting for the children of the Frankie Miller Band? Eleven-year-old Will loves everything supernatural. When he is sent to stay with Auntie Mavis in Whitby for the summer holidays, the perfect adventure beckons, especially when his best friends Jonesy and Sammy are invited to stay too. The gang is all together but there’s a problem – Will has promised to look after his little sister Sumi who goes with them everywhere. When the boys manage to sneak Sumi into the popular attraction, The Monsters of the Wax Museum, she disappears. What could have happened to her? And what are the shady owners of the wax museum up to? As the boys investigate, Will’s loyalty and courage are put to the test… Paperback, 192 pages, RRP £6.99 ISBN 978-1-912218-38-7 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, July 2018
  • There is an island on the far side of the world called Kora-Di and on this misty island is the pool of diamonds. Diamonds, polished over the centuries in the turbulent volcanic fountain that spawned them, some the size of a man’s fist. Where is this mysterious island? It is not on any Admiralty chart. Can it be found again? When Mungo left the island, he knew he was in the South Pacific. His estimates of the island’s position could be a thousand miles in any direction from the point where he was picked up. He sailed from the island with a map and a pouch full of uncut gemstones, but after weathering a hurricane all that he had left was the map and one solitary stone. He had lived with the Walla’s of Kora-Di for three years and married the daughter of their tribal chief. He would have been content to stay there for the rest of his life, but felt an obligation to return to England and settle his affairs. With the help of the villagers, he built a canoe, stocked it with fresh water, fishing lines and enough dried fruit and fish to last him about three weeks, and then set sail, hoping to find a ship that would get him back to civilisation. He was later rescued by a tramp steamer and eventually arrived back in England. When he told his story of shipwreck, and an ancient civilisation that pre-dated the Greeks and the Egyptians, it was so fantastic that no one took him seriously, except Captain Henry Mallard, skipper of the Sea Urchin. The odyssey begins in an English village near Plymouth.
  • Available now in paperback and Kindle. Cattle droving in the early 1800s is a hard and dangerous job full of risks and perils. Young Jack Rutherford sets out on his first solo drove and rapidly falls foul of Silas Kirk, a notorious villain who stops at nothing to get what he wants. Paperback, 230 pages, RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1-912218-51-6 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, April 2019
  • Kindle eBook £2.99 or FREE to read on Kindle Unlimited Jack Rutherford is back on the road… and trouble is waiting for him in the second of the Jack Rutherford 1820’s historical cattle droving adventures. “An entertaining and charismatic main character who barges his way through the story with bold panache and goodwill galore.” Jack Rutherford is now a successful man, living a good life with his wife and infant son. But he’s restless… adventure is calling him once again. Not only that, his past is starting to catch up with him as an old enemy comes out of the woodwork and threatens the safety of Jack’s family. Soon, Jack and his faithful wolfhound Dag are out on the road again, travelling through the north of England, London and across the North Sea to France. And, as always, danger, excitement and adventure are waiting for them. Buy the new Jack Rutherford adventure now on Kindle. Paperback, 230 pages, RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1-912218-67-7 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, December 2019

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