R.A. Spratt

Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl! The eagerly awaited new series from the author of the bestselling Nanny Piggins series. When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding school in the country, Highcrest Academy. On arrival, Friday is shocked to discover the respectable school...

Who knew boarding school could be this perilous! When Friday Barnes cracked the case of Highcrest Academy's mysterious swamp-yeti, the last thing she expected was to be placed under arrest. Now with the law on her back and Ian Wainscott in her face, Friday is not so sure boarding school was the smartest choice. From a missing or not-so-missing calculator...

Friday Barnes 3: Big Trouble presents a new challenge for our young detective, and this time it's personal! When Friday's father unexpectedly reappears, he brings unsettling news—Friday's mother has been kidnapped! But who would want to kidnap a theoretical physicist? The Headmaster also requires Friday's assistance when Highcrest Academy descends into chaos due to a new arrival, the beautiful Princess...

What if every clue points in the wrong direction? Friday Barnes has been deported to Switzerland! With their in-school detective gone, Highcrest Academy has descended into chaos. Someone's fired all the teachers! The Headmaster claims it wasn't him, and suspicion soon turns to Ian Wainscott. But Friday won't stand by and let her favourite nemesis take the blame. Apart from...

Derrick, Samantha, and Michael should be in school. Instead, they find themselves in NASA's space shuttle, which Nanny Piggins manages to accidentally launch, blasting them all into outer space. This time she has gone too far! In this thrilling fourth instalment of her adventures, Nanny Piggins And The Accidental Blast-Off, Nanny Piggins wrestles with a crocodile, bungy jumps off the...

Friday Barnes 9: No Escape features Friday Barnes back with a new mystery to be solved. It's two years later... Friday steps out of prison, a shell of her former self. She's still wearing the same brown cardigan, but she swears she's never solving mysteries again! Yeah right - who is she kidding? She can't suppress her brilliant deductive mind...

Three squabbling siblings. One all too perfect next-door neighbour. A missing mum, a bumbling dad, a kooky cockroach mystery and an eccentric country town. What could possibly go wrong? Life is hard enough without having to spend time with your siblings. But there is no other way for Joe, Fin and April Peski to solve the mystery of the cockroach...

The Peski Kids are back with more hilarious antics as they adjust to their new life in an eccentric country town. No one believes April saw an enormous bear in the woods. No one thinks Fin didn't break the Cat Lady's foot. No one wants to know why Loretta bought Dad new underwear. And no one listens to Joe, because...

Dinosaurs will be glad they're extinct once they've had a visit from The Peski Kids! The annual geography excursion was supposed to be educational, but with The Peski Kids on board it soon turns into chaos. April tries to smash her way out of a moving bus, Fin gets his head bitten by a dinosaur, Joe finds himself carrying around...

Things are about to get messy for the Peski Kids as mud-run madness descends on Currawong! Chaos parachutes into Currawong when the annual Mud Run hits town. The Peski kids are soon swept up in the festivities. Or in April's case, strapped to a vision-impaired competitor in the race. Can Joe beat the fierce opposition? Can Fin hit Joe with...

The OG enemies-to-lovers story gets the R.A. Spratt treatment! Selby does not want to be in the school play. She is much happier behind the scenes painting sets—anything to avoid standing on stage in front of an audience, performing for disinterested classmates and overenthusiastic parents. So Selby did not plan on landing the lead role of Juliet... and she certainly...

Nanny Piggins returns with a porcine retelling of the biggest, the greatest, the most epic, the most Herculean of all the Greek myths – the Odyssey! An epically funny novel to horrify good children and delight the wicked ones, R.A. Spratt's take on the classic text is as full of cake, mockery and mirth as you'd expect. Here Odysseus is,...

A Nanny with trotters! Nanny Piggins, the world's most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who could not fall in love with a Nanny whose only job qualifications are her astonishing ability to be fired...

Never cross a flying pig! When Mr Green announces his diabolical plan—he has decided to get married—his children (Derrick, Samantha, and Michael) are horrified. Especially when they discover his real motive—he wants to get married so he can sack their beloved nanny, Nanny Piggins. Obviously, their father has to be stopped, and Nanny Piggins is just the pig to do...

In book five of her enthralling adventures, Nanny Piggins and the Rival Ringmaster, Nanny Piggins discovers some startling truths about the ruthless Ringmaster. She provides counselling to a Molavadinian princess with pre-wedding jitters and inadvertently wins a Nobel Prize while impersonating her sister. Along the way, she catches up with her favourite 4-tonne friend, Esmeralda, the forgetful elephant.

A curly tale of revenge, rescue, and jam-filled doughnuts. With a runaway lion loose in the neighbourhood, Derrick, Samantha, and Michael feel scared. Nanny Piggins feels like a slice of cake. And Boris feels like that lion looks strangely familiar. In this third action-packed book of adventures, Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion 3, Nanny Piggins tames a lion and...

A vote for Piggins is a vote for cake! In this riveting eighth instalment of Nanny Piggins adventures, she sets out to thwart Mr Green's political ambitions by running for mayor herself. Her mission is to proudly fight for Liberty, Equality and Cake! Is democracy safe? Probably not. Will Nanny Piggins give everyone in the electorate diabetes from too much...

Nanny Piggins and The Pursuit Of Justice 6 by R.A. Spratt follows the adventurous Nanny Piggins as she finds herself in hot water with the law after some illicit tight rope walking, resulting in a sentence of 5000 hours of community service. However, Nanny Piggins isn't the type of pig to take her punishment lying down, especially when there are...

Charming, funny and absurdly good - find out where it all began in the prequel to The Adventures of Nanny Piggins. Prepare yourself for the greatest story about a farmyard animal ever told. When Mother Piggins leaves the family sty for a job on a yacht, the Piggins piglets are faced with two options: fend for themselves... or become bacon...

Never fear, Nanny Piggins is here! When Mr Green rings from a tropical island, begging to be rescued, Nanny Piggins' first instinct is to say no. However, a principle is at stake. No-one kidnaps her employer, at least not without written permission from her. So Nanny Piggins sets out to save the hapless tax lawyer, and to do so she...

Trouble on the Arctic tundra! Friday Barnes 10: Undercover follows the daring adventures of Friday Barnes who is definitely not running away. True, she boarded a train to Norway without letting anyone know her whereabouts, but she had an essential mission to assist Binky, who may or may not have been attacked by a polar bear. Now at risk of...

Friday Barnes is being attacked on all fronts! When Friday Barnes gets involved in her frenemy Ian Wainscott's family dispute, it appears her knack for uncovering the truth may ruin their friendship once and for all. Highcrest Academy is no longer a fun place to be. Ian has declared war on Friday, and she is thinking of leaving... for good....

Headmasters behaving badly! When four former headmasters arrive at Highcrest Academy to take part in the school's anniversary celebrations, the students are warned to be on their best behaviour. Unfortunately, no one told the headmasters to stay out of mischief too! Which means Friday Barnes soon has a case to solve. But unravelling the truth isn't easy when the whole...

School camp . . . what could possibly go wrong? Friday Barnes is forced to face her biggest fear - her own emotions! She must wave goodbye to Ian as he takes off to join his father in the Cayman Islands. But when your dad is a white-collar criminal, family reunions never go to plan. Ian is kidnapped en route...

Friday's time at Highcrest is running out! The new headmaster is turning everything upside down. Friday's irritatingly high IQ has her fast-tracked to graduation, while a pair of incriminating pants puts Ian on the rocky road to expulsion. When a rumour emerges of embezzled gold stashed on the school grounds, Friday is determined to uncover the truth. But some big...

Funny, shocking and brilliant—from bestselling author R. A. Spratt, a whip-smart take on Shakespearean moral dilemmas. Selby hates homework. She would rather watch TV—anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop, and small-town busybodies. So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. This novel transports Selby, and the reader, into the cold...

A lovestruck merpig, a peppermint-stick Parthenon, a vegetarian spider and so much more! From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes and Shockingly Good Stories, comes this collection of twenty terrific tales perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Paul Jennings. Featuring Greek myths and fractured fairytales as told by Nanny Piggins (the world's most glamorous flying pig),...

Bedtime has never been so bonkers! The ultimate collection of short stories from the irrepressibly funny author of Friday Barnes. From the bestselling author and host of the hugely popular Bedtime Stories with R. A. Spratt podcast comes this bumper collection of the show's most popular stories. Just as the Grimm brothers collected fairytales and Scheherazade told tales of the...

From bestselling author R.A. Spratt comes this savagely silly collection of Greek myths. Featuring sword-happy heroes, badly behaved Gods, a monstrous minotaur, a narcoleptic dragon, and more nymphs than you can poke a stick at! Master storyteller R.A. Spratt (bestselling author of Friday Barnes and the Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt podcast) weaves her comedic magic through this captivating collection...

Crime is afoot in the city of love! Someone stole the Mona Lisa. Okay, it was over a hundred years ago, but a recently uncovered letter reveals that the thief forged a copy. That means that the painting in the Louvre now is a fake. And the real Mona Lisa could be anywhere! Friday Barnes 11: Last Chance sees Friday...

Friday Barnes 12: Collision Course sees Friday Barnes becoming Europe's most wanted in the latest instalment of the bestselling detective series. Friday's mum, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has been accused of espionage. The police suspect she's been selling secrets about the CERN Hadron Super Collider. Friday knows her mother isn't capable of such a thing—this is a woman who can't...

Friday Barnes 13: In Plain Sight takes readers on an exhilarating adventure as Friday Barnes hits New York City in the latest instalment of the bestselling detective series. When Princess Ingrid is kidnapped, along with her fiancé, Binky Pelly, it becomes international news. The King of Norway is distraught, the people of Norway are bewildered, and Ingrid's bodyguard is fired....

Piranhas on the run, stolen sandwiches, chocolate waterfalls and so much more! From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes, comes this collection of twenty short stories perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Paul Jennings. Featuring fractured fairytales told by none other than Nanny Piggins, previously unpublished Friday Barnes mysteries and a bunch of other hilarious and...

Watch out Santa, Nanny Piggins is coming to town this Christmas! The Nanny Piggins Guide to Conquering Christmas is not a survival guide to Christmas. This is a guide to conquering the Yuletide season! That's right, it is time to take a stand—don't suffer through another year of brussels sprouts, gift-wrapped socks, and slobbery kisses from great aunts who forget...

Friday Barnes is back in Manhattan in this latest instalment of the bestselling detective series. Despite being a great detective, Friday can't work out if Ian has broken up with her. It's not easy being both brilliant and socially clueless. Unable to deal with the heartache, Friday tries to lose herself in the intellectual world of street chess. But she...