Agent Alfie

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies... Jake's dad is head of the Secret Service. Alice's dad is a double agent. Harry's dad has infiltrated SPUD - the Secret Partners for Undertaking Destruction. And Alfie's dad... is a postman. Thunder Raker Manor is a very exclusive school. All the pupils are there because their parents or guardians are agents and spies. All except one. Because eight-year-old Alfie's dad isn't anything to do with the secret services. He's the local postman who just reckoned that Thunder Raker Manor was a great school. So when the Head Teacher receives a letter from the Prime Minister saying that Alfie has been given a special place and will start immediately, he isn't to know that Alfie's dad wrote it and slipped it in with the 'special' post... Now Alfie has to get to grips with Thunder Raker's unusual curriculum and some even stranger new friends. He's got classes in camouflage (if anyone can ever find Mr. Trick) and Assassination (only kids keep going missing from Miss Fortune's class). And he's now in permanent danger from SPUD agents. But to his surprise, Alfie finds that he might just be quite good at this spying game... • A brilliantly funny new series for 5-8 boys from Justin Richards, author of Dr Who • Turns the traditional spy story on its head and kids will relate to Alfie who is a normal boy • Full of gadgets and secret agent gags that kids will love! • Features and adverts in Dr Who magazine, with serialized Agent Alfie comic strip • Gadget features, quizzes and reviews on kids websites

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies... Alfie and his friends are preparing for their SATS exams - because everyone knows that if you don't have your Special Agent Training Standards you can't go on to do your GCSEs. And if you didn't have your General Certificate in Surveillance and Espionage then where would you be? The thing is, SATS are hard enough as it is. But when the test papers go missing in the post and are replaced by competitions to win sets of matching saucepans, it just gets ridiculous! Can Alfie and his friends solve the mystery of the missing post? One thing's for sure: SPUD just have to be behind it, somehow...

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies... SPUD has set up a secret base under the school pond and is using radio-controlled duck-cameras to gather information. But the chief SPUD agent has made the mistake of having his weekly edition of SPUD's Nasty Newsletter redirected to his new base - by Alfie's dad, the local postman! It doesn't take long for the gang to work out what SPUD are up to. Can Alfie and his friends find a way of turning the SPUD infiltration to their advantage? Of course they can - and soon the school is teaching the pupils using even more bizarre methods than usual, all for SPUD's benefit. Will the evil organisation really believe in assassination by daffodil? Or that trained hamsters are used to infiltrate their bases? Of course they will...