Three books in one:
Awful End , Dreadful Acts , Terrible Times

When Eddie Dickens's parents go yellow, crinkly around the edges and smell of old hot-water bottles, he's sent ...

If Beardy Ardagh is to be believed, the trouble begins when a monkey escapes from The Grubtown Old Folks Home, or when The Sun-Ripe Raisin Man decides to give up ...

You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from ...

News just in from Beardy Ardagh: When a yachting trip turns to disaster and the shipwrecked crew, including Mango Claptrap, ends up using the impressively large Flabby Gomez as a ...

If Beardy Ardagh is to be believed, things all start going on the bonkers side of very wrong when Mayor Flabby Gomez finally finishes knitting his new home and declares ...

Coming a month before the special World Book Day publication is the fourth instalment of the silliest series on record:

As eye-witness Beardy Ardagh reports, when famous film star Tawdry ...

As Beardy Ardagh reports, when the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness and a ship runs aground - flattening The Rusty Dolphin - it’s hard to imagine things can get much ...

A startled cow falling out of nowhere onto Limbo Goulash while he's riding Marley Gripe's bicycle marks the start of a chain of events strange even by Grubtown ...

An outrageous adventure disgracefully told ...

While leafing through issues of Punch from 1880, it soon became apparent to Philip Ardagh that lurking within totally unrelated illustrations was a gang of ...

In this, the third and final of 'The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens', our saucer-eyed hero Eddie Dickens finds himself embroiled in an attempt to foil a plot to steal ...

Forced to leave his woodland home, destroyed by the expansion plans of the evil Gretsch, Wirral the squirrel vows to find the fabled land of Animalia, where all the animals ...

Nothing evokes the world of Sherlock Holmes like the original illustrations from The Strand Magazine - used here to tell of a strange change in behaviour of the master detective, as ...

In this, the third and final 'Unlikely Exploit', the reader is taken on a journey through time in all directions, even revisiting some events from the previous exploits and travelling ...

Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of ...

Eddie Dickens is back! In this, the first of his Further Adventures, Eddie finds himself far from home in the heathery Highlands of Scotland. Here he encounters a whole host ...

Book Two in Philip Ardagh's darkly hilarious new trilogy, 'Unlikely Exploits', charting the extraordinary change in fortunes of the downtrodden McNally family.

The setting is an unidentified country suffering ...

In this final book in the trilogy, Eddie had been given the task of travelling to America to look after his family's interests there. But his life is never ...

When both of Eddie Dickens's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of hot water bottles, it's ...

From the creator of the best selling 'Eddie Dickens Trilogy', this is Book One of a darkly hilarious second trilogy, charting the extraordinary changes in fortunes of the down-trodden McNally ...

The Archaeologists' Handbook takes a look at the role of archaeologists from the discovery of an artefact or archaeological site to the identification, dating, preservation, restoration, and understanding of what ...

Philip Ardagh has a passion for history. During his numerous children's events over the years, he has been asked just about every conceivable question about castles and life in ...

Did dinosaurs have any hair? What did a dinosaur's nest look like? How do we know what colour they were? What was the daftest mistake a palaeontologist ever made ...

Learn to decipher the language of the pharaohs and solve the riddle of the pyramids with The Hieroglyphs Handbook . This is hieroglyphics for beginners; an opportunity for the child on ...

After a serious accident involving a gorse bush, Eddie Dickens finds himself being cared for by monks of the Bertian order, founded by Ethelbert the Funny, and with absolutely no ...

Eddie Dickens continues his hilarious adventures in the second book in this best-selling trilogy, hailed by the Guardian as 'a scrumptious cross between Dickens and Monty Python'.

Eddie Dickens narrowly ...