S*W*A*G*G 1, Spook

Blonde is back. She's bigger. She's badder. And she's got a new team.Live-streaming event organiser, HOST, has found a way to bring the 'World Community Games' into everyone's homes. Athletes from around the globe can take part in the race of their lives without the need for spectator travel or mass gatherings.Jane Blonde thought it was all over when she carried out her last sensational, spytastic mission with G-Mamma. Every since then it had been - well, a bit boring.Then, from out of the shadows, Gideon Flynn appears. Flynn had thought it was over, too – until he found JB and a new group of very special allies who can warp time, space and life itself.But are they ready, willing or even able to do what he wants? It's time to find out. Meet SWAGG.From the author of the best-selling Jane Blonde books comes a new world of adventures, characters and connections.You can meet the other team members in the SWAGG Origin Series:Jane BlondeJack BCMatilda PeppercornStein & FrankJill Marshall Bookswww.jillmarshallbooks.com 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.