The Magic Bottle

The Magic Bottle – originally published in 1946 – is the only book for children by much-loved Golden Age crime writer Cyril Hare.

When Philip and his sister Mary opened the oddly-shaped bottle and found that they had released a Djinn, Philip, who knew his Arabian Nights, feared the worst. But the Djinn was an unexpected kind of Djinn, and his release was the start of some very unexpected adventures …

‘His style is easy and fluent, and his books are eminently readable … A great novelist.’ Spectator