The Boy to Beat the Gods

The Boy to Beat the Gods by Ashley Thorpe is a thrilling tale, shortlisted for the Week Junior Book Awards, the Jhalak Prize, and the Branford Boase Award. Louie Stowell, author of Loki, praises it as "thrilling, tautly-written, pulls you right in and keeps you there! Plus: bonus trickster god!" A.F. Steadman, author of the Skandar series, describes it as "a fast-paced, first-class debut with action scenes that will leave you breathless and characters who will have you cheering. I loved it!"

Discover a fierce and fun story of one boy versus six gods, from a magical new voice in children's fiction. Kayode dreams of eating the forbidden fruit of the Orishas so he can gain the power of the gods and stop them terrorising his people. When a fruit mysteriously appears in his path after the Orishas snatch his sister, he leaps on it.

Surging with new and difficult-to-control powers, he joins forces with a shape-shifting trickster god and a vengeful princess to save his sister and put an end to the mighty Orishas. But each has more fearful powers than the last, and Kayode's stolen half-god strength won't last forever...