Out now: The Midwatch by Judith Rossell
The Midwatch has arrived! We could not be more excited for the world to finally be able to read this spectacular story from the clever, funny and wonderful Judith Rossell.
‘The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that …’
When Magdalena Fishbone is thrown out of Mud Harbor, she is sent to the city to live in the ominous sounding Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Wayward Girls. The city is stuffed full of wickedness. Huge alligators live in the sewers. Shadowy, hulking monsters lurch through the streets at night. Bakers steal children and chop them up for their pies. And the Midwatch, with its dark, dreary corridors, is rumored to be the very worst place of all.
But Maggie soon discovers there is more to Midwatch than meets the eye… behind the grim façade the girls are secretly solving crimes with their brilliant investigative skills. The city shimmers with jewels and secrets, and Maggie is thrust into an adventure that takes her deep underground, high above the clouds and face to face with danger itself.
‘Gasp-out-loud brilliant! An absolute treasure of a book.’
— KATRINA NANNESTAD, bestselling author of We Are Wolves
‘I was hooked from the beginning ... Move over Lemony Snicket!’
— KAREN FOXLEE, award-winning author of Lenny’s Book of Everything
‘Welcome all treasure-hunters and mystery-solvers to the Midwatch Institute … [where] disobedient girls are not to be underestimated!'
— AMELIA MELLOR, award-winning author of The Grandest Bookshop in the World
‘A cracking concept, sensational characters and absolutely smashing pictures: The Midwatch is the cat’s pyjamas!’
— JACLYN MORIARTY, award-winning author of the Kingdoms and Empires series
