Amy Sparkes 3 Books Collection Set (The House at the Edge of Magic, The Tower at the End of Time & The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond)

Titles in this Set : The House at the Edge of MagicThe Tower at the End of Time The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond Condition : BRAND NEWFormat : Paperback ISBN : 9780241352489 The House at the Edge of MagicNine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious womans purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast – a young wizard whos particularly competitive at hopscotch – and a hideous troll housekeeper whos emotionally attached to his feather duster. They have been placed under an extraordinary spell, which they are desperate for Nine to break – and if she can, maybe they can offer her a new life in returnThe Tower at the End of TimeNine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvellous, magical House, and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first stop: The Wizarding Hopscotch Championships.There's only one problem: the House is nervous about travelling – and gets the hiccups! Bouncing from world to world with every "HIC!", they finally land at the championships, only for Flabberghast to have an unfortunate run-in with square number seven, and find himself faced with the terrible Tower at the End of Time.The Bookshop at the Back of BeyondNine and her friends have cured the house's hiccups and are off to the strange and utterly unpredictable Back of Beyond in search of Professor Dish – Spoon's best friend and partner in all things alchemy.When they find Dish trapped by the greedy witch Ophidia in the basement of a particularly marvellous shop, it soon becomes clear they're going to need something more than Flabberghast's dicey magic and Nine's quick thinking to triumph this time. What they really need is a rather clever witch – one particularly good at curses... About the Author : Amy Sparkes was born