Sorcery

Legendary catgirl and head of the Runes, Matilda Peppercorn, is called to some SWAGGey action when a swarm of strange visitors arrive at the School of I.C.E. with a message.Someone, somewhere, is waking up. But who? Scotland's mysterious fairy folk and famous monsters? The race known only as 'the Others' who terrify all of witchkind? Or something much, much worse? Yes, yes and … yes!Dark forces are sweeping across the world. It's going to take a team effort to fight off what's awoken, if Tilly's old friends and her new team of SWAGG can stop fighting with each other! But Tilly's been woken up too. She's always been a legend. But now, with SWAGG, she's about to discover her ultimate destiny ... Jill Marshall is the author of the best-selling Jane Blonde series and fiction for children, young adults and adults. Her middle-grade series about sensational girl spy, Jane Blonde,published by Macmillan Children's Books UK, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world, featured as a World Book Day title and reached the UK Times Top 10 for all fiction. Jane Blonde has been optioned for film and TV and is currently undergoing some exciting Wower-ish transformations.Jill has now brought Jane together with her other series in this age group - Doghead, The Legend of Matilda Peppercorn, Stein & Frank - in a fantastic new ensemble series. Meet the SWAGG team, and their first book, SPOOK.As well as books for tweens and teens, Jill writes for young adults and adults, each with a collection of three stand-alone novels. She also writes for younger children, with a Hachette-published picture book for teenies, Kave-Tina Rox.When she's not writing books, Jill is a communications consultant and a proud mum and nana. She divides her time between the UK and New Zealand, and hopes one day to travel between the two by SatiSPI or ESPIdrilles. Gideon Flynn emerges from the shadows to draw a tip-top and highly unusual team together. Jane Blonde. Jack BC. Matilda Peppercorn. Stein. All stars in their own right, they're about to pull together in a dazzling line-up that can tackle the biggest of challenges. And that's exactly what Gideon presents them with, in an out-of-this-world series that starts with SWAGG 1 - Spook.This ensemble series is from the author of the best-selling Jane Blonde series, Jill Marshall. Jane Blonde has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in 22 countries around the world, been a UK Times Top Ten bestseller and a World Book Day title, and has been optioned for film and TV. Each character has their own origin story/series, including Jane Blonde and Jack BC which were both published previously by Macmillan Children's Books.And SWAGG's not just a series. It's a universe. A chance for readers to find new heroes - on the page and in themselves.Meet the SWAGG team. They're the world's treasure.