2008 is set to be an exciting year for Fidra Books with a new list of titles with wider appeal appearing alongside our main list of collectors’ editions.

The latter list will see the publication of books such as Bunkle Scents a Clue by M Pardoe, last but one in the series and one of the rarest; Dragon Castle by Elinor Lyon, an almost impossible to find title set in Wales near the author’s home; Fifth Year Friendships at Trebizon by Anne Digby; Far Distant Oxus by Pamela Whitlock and Katharine Hull, first in the Oxus trilogy written by two schoolgirls and with a foreword by Arthur Ransome; two of the popular Alison books by Sheila Stuart, and Pony Club Team by Josephine Pullein Thompson.

Concurrent with this will be our mass market list beginning with The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker – this has been one of our most successful books and deserves a bigger audience and so we have a lovely new cover for it and later this year, it can be found, as they say, in all good bookshops. We also have the rights to Ruby Ferguson’s marvellous Jill series and will be starting to reissue those with the original text and new covers beginning with Jill’s Gymkhana. Our list of pony books continues with Eventer’s Dream; the first books in Caroline Akrill’s Eventing trilogy.

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Dragon Castle
Elinor Lyon
Martin Reed goes to spend a holiday with a family in Wales as his father is ill. He does not find the family very congenial, but this does not deter Martin who quickly makes friends with some wild children called the Burnets. They have a wonderful secret which they soon disclose to Martin - the undiscovered ruins of a castle.
Forthcoming (early October): Pre-ordering Information.

Bunkle Scents a Clue
M Pardoe
Bunkle is seventeen, and is spending a few weeks of the school holidays in Somerset, with his parents and his Scottish cousins. It is not surprising the the holiday proves less quiet and conventional than had been planned. Riding about the moors, they are annoyed by a fast Jaguar car. It's owner is traced to an ugly Victorian villa where a professor of science lives in condistions of suspicious secrecy.
Forthcoming (early November): Pre-ordering Information.

Alison's Christmas Adventure
Sheila Stuart
Clarig, that fascinating spot on the coast of Sutherland, where Alison and her brother Niall and their friends seem to find plenty of excitment at any season, provides not only ample open-air fun and adventure at this particular Christmas-time, but another mystery to unravel. Is the Professor's interest in geology genuine? If so, why are some of his movements so suspicious? And how is it that both Alison and her uncle have a feeling that they have seen him before? Events prove that not rocks, but something very different, are behind the Professor's activities.
Forthcoming (early December): Pre-ordering Information.