M.A. Bennett

Filled with deadly secrets and the monsters you thought only existed in your mind ... You've heard of Jekyll and Hyde, you've heard of the Invisible Man, but have you heard of Bran Castle? Eve, Griffin, Hal, and Ren are whisked away to Transylvania, to the supposed home of Dracula himself. Lured there by a desire to understand more about...

The Island by M A Bennett follows the story of Link, a young boy who is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he struggles to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. It’s a place filled with strange traditions and bizarre practices, such as ranking students by how fast they can run around the school quad—no...

Determined to crush the Order of the Stag once and for all, and in a desperate last throw of the dice, Greer walks willingly into the lion's den by accepting a sinister invitation to Castle McLeod, a Scottish stately home in the Isle of Skye. Greer will be aided and kept safe by Shafeen and Nel, and the enigmatic Abbot...

It is the autumn term and Greer MacDonald is struggling to settle into the sixth form at the exclusive St. Aidan the Great boarding school, known to its privileged pupils as S.T.A.G.S. Just when she despairs of making friends, Greer receives a mysterious invitation with three words embossed upon it: huntin' shootin' fishin'. When Greer learns that the invitation is...

Would you risk the future to change the past?Luna, Konstantin and Aidan are time-travelling thieves working for The Butterfly Club.When they are asked to steal a little-known painting called the Mona Lisa, Aidan can only think of one man who can make things disappear the magician, Harry Houdini. And as luck would have it, Houdini cannot resist a challenge.The three...

'A hugely entertaining mystery' Fiona Noble, The Bookseller Children's Previews 'One to Watch' Greenwich, London, 15th February 1894.Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt's butterfly club sounds deathly boring.But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, is not at all as Luna expects. The Butterfly Club is a society with an...

The adventures of the time-travelling Butterfly Club continue . . .Film is set to become the new craze. Butterfly Club member and filmmaker Georges Mlis pleads to be allowed to go forward in time to harvest a movie camera from the future to make his ambitious film, A Trip to the Moon.The Butterfly Club call up Professor Lorenz's hologram from...

After the dramatic events of the last few weeks, Greer Macdonald is trying to concentrate on her A levels. Stuck for a play to direct for her drama exam, she gets help from an unexpected quarter... A priceless lost play, buried by time, is pushed under her door. It is Ben Jonson's The Isle of Dogs, a play considered so...

Greer has just recovered from her terrifying experience during the STAGS play. Was she really put on trial by the sinister Dark Order of the Grand Stag? Or was it purely her overheated imagination? The imprint of an 'M' for murderer that has appeared on her thumb, though, is puzzling but incomplete evidence. Meanwhile, Ty is staying on at Longcross...

Filled with deadly secrets and the monsters you thought only existed in your mind... 'I had no idea what would happen next!' - Tess James-Mackey, author of You Wouldn't Catch Me Dead You've heard of Frankenstein's monster, you've heard of Dracula, but have you heard of the Villa Diodati? Eve, Griffin, Hal and Ren embark on a summer they'll never...

The secret society everyone's dying to join ... A case of mistaken identity means Eddie Dontay is hurled into the exclusive world of New Haven School. Pretending to be Bartholomew "Brat" Van Buren III, the sole heir to a rich family who mysteriously disappeared a year ago, Eddie is sent undercover to expose the dark secrets of the Gloomth society....

This isn't just a puzzle. It's a lethal game of survive or die ... Estranged twins Mabel and Kai each receive an unexpected invitation to stay for a week at their grandfather's Parisian chateau. Neither remembers meeting their grandfather, and neither had any idea that he was still alive. The author of a notoriously difficult puzzle book, their grandfather is...

Would you risk the future to change the past?Greenwich, London, 1894.Luna, Konstantin and Aidan are time-travelling thieves, stealing artefacts from the future to bring progress forward. And they are about to venture on their most treacherous mission.For The Butterfly Club have their eyes on a shiny new prize. In Egypt's Valley of the Kings a man named Howard Carter will...