Books published under the Strident imprint
Excitement. Reading. Counting. Tiffy and Toffy are brother and sister mice. Every day is an adventure for them. Winter is approaching and Tiffy and Toffy’s cupboards are bare. Bertha Barn Owl lies between Tiffy and Toffy and the farmer’s barn, where Tiffy and Toffy think food may be stored. Is a raid on the barn worth…
Genre: Adventure, Animals, classic children’s, counting, Educational, Fiction, Morality tales, Nature, Picture book, StridentSeries: Tiffy & Toffy | Subjects: adventure, animals, brambles, children’s books, countryside, nature, owl, Paul Murdoch, Tiffy & Toffy, wormsIllustrated by Scott Wallace
Excitement. Reading. Counting. Tiffy and Toffy are brother and sister mice. Every day is an adventure for them. What’s that noise? Argh, it’s a big red monster! Tiffy and Toffy grab all that they have and run…straight into danger of another kind. Can they escape again? And what will happen to the home they have fled?…
Genre: Adventure, Animals, classic children’s, counting, Educational, Fiction, Morality tales, Nature, Picture book, StridentSeries: Tiffy & Toffy | Subjects: adventure, animals, brambles, children’s books, countryside, farming, nature, Paul Murdoch, Tiffy & Toffy, wormsIllustrated by Scott Wallace
Excitement. Reading. Counting. Tiffy and Toffy are brother and sister mice. Every day is an adventure for them. Willie Weasel is up to no good. He has stolen all the baby voles. Can Tiffy & Toffy help Violet Vole rescue them? Tiffy & Toffy come up with a daring plan. Bobby Badger and Molly Mole have…
Genre: Adventure, Animals, classic children’s, counting, Educational, Fiction, Morality tales, Nature, Picture book, StridentSeries: Tiffy & Toffy | Subjects: adventure, animals, badger, brambles, children’s books, countryside, nature, Paul Murdoch, Tiffy & Toffy, vole, weasel, wormsIllustrated by Scott Wallace
Excitement. Reading. Counting. Tiffy and Toffy are brother and sister mice. Every day is an adventure for them. Sammy Shrew has found gold! Annie Adder thinks it is hers though. And she wants it back. Tiffy and Toffy agree to help Sammy and they set off to return it. But Sammy is so interested…
Genre: Adventure, Animals, classic children’s, counting, Educational, Fiction, Morality tales, Nature, Picture book, StridentSeries: Tiffy & Toffy | Subjects: adder, adventure, animals, brambles, children’s books, countryside, mice, nature, Paul Murdoch, snake, Tiffy & ToffyIllustrated by Scott Wallace
Excitement. Reading. Counting. Tiffy and Toffy are brother and sister mice. Every day is an adventure for them. Tiffy is out in the field, looking for the brambles her brother needs for his special pie. But Tiffy and Toffy are not the only ones looking forward to a tasty meal. Kenny Kestrel has his…
Genre: Adventure, Animals, classic children’s, counting, Educational, Fiction, Morality tales, Nature, Picture book, StridentSeries: Tiffy & Toffy | Subjects: adventure, animals, bramble, brambles, children’s books, countryside, mole, nature, Paul Murdoch, pie, Tiffy & Toffy, wormsIllustrated by Scott Wallace
Watch the brilliant series trailer! The 3rd book in The Peck Chronicles… The odds are stacked heavily against James Peck and the wizard-goldfish Mendel. One year on from their extraordinary Denthan adventure, the zany villagers of Drumfintley find themselves the last line of defence against an invasion of Earth. The scale of the threat becomes…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Coming of Age, Fantasy, Fiction, StridentSeries: The Peck Chronicles | Subjects: adventure, Asthma, discovery, Family, Journey, LossIllustrated by Ida Henrich
Watch the brilliant series trailer! The 2nd book in The Peck Chronicles… The Hedra wizard Dendralon sees the impending destruction of Denthan as an opportunity to increase his power. James Peck is intent on stopping him. He needs to journey to the Eden Tree, deep in the Forest of Eldane. If he can find the…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Coming of Age, Fantasy, Fiction, StridentSeries: The Peck Chronicles | Subjects: adventure, Asthma, Denthan, discovery, Family, Journey, Loss, Paul Murdoch. The Peck Chronicles. fantasy
View the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HT5gBVgdM&feature=youtu.be Everyone who came to the strange gym class was looking for something else. What they found was the mysterious Mrs Powell and Pashki, a lost art from an age when cats were worshipped as gods. Ben and Tiffany wonder: who is their eccentric old teacher? What does she really want with…
Debut crime fiction from one of the BBC’s best-known voices. From Ireland to Scotland. From life to death. Oonagh O’Neil has a challenge on her hands – and her head over a toilet bowl. TV journalist and media darling Oonagh O’Neil faces danger and chaos when an elderly priest dies on the altar of his…
A glorious, quirky tale about a crocogator’s search for acceptance in Elsewhere. Everyone has heard of crocodiles. Everyone has also heard of alligators. But have you heard of a crocogator? How about an orangupanda or a deerkat? Or a rhinuffalo? These, and other marvellously peculiar creatures, are THE AMINALS! They are animals, they are just…
Aliens. Abductions. Genuine designer bags. Teenager Porter Minter arrives in Castlecrankie in a car that has no door handles. In the boot is a suitcase. In the suitcase is a boy. In the boy is the future and the past. The Armpit of the Universe wasn’t Porter’s destination of choice, he’s been dragged there. And…
Genre: Coming of Age, Fiction, Murky, Mystery, SciFi, Strident, Weirdness, Young AdultSeries: The Castlecrankie Chronicles | Subjects: Acceptance, aliens, Diversity, JFK
TC Farries AwardWhat is the deadly allure of the Barn? 17-year-old Kat Sullivan has been devastated by the loss of her twin sister, Abby, the most recent of five teenagers to have died in the town of Eddison, all within a year. No-one seems able to explain the circumstances surrounding her death. As Kat struggles to move on, she is…
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Strident, Young AdultSubjects: Andy Warhol, art, coming of age, cult, romance, Underground, Vulnerability
Yeti on the Loose is a rampaging, rip-roaring, flower-munching, chimpanzee’s tea party of a book, where there’s never a minute to get your breath and always a big disaster about to strike! Argh! There’s something in the cellar! Jumping Anacondas! Something is afoot at Waldorf Crescent, Chutney. And a heckuva big foot it is too. Brian…
It’s tough being the foretold saviour of your race. Rory MacGregor, kept a virtual prisoner in his own father’s dun and hunted by the Sithe queen, needs a break now and then – and what better fun than tearing the Veil no one else can tear, and escaping to the Otherworld? In that dangerous Otherworld,…
Fantastic Book Awards WinnerLucie has always longed for a dog. But not one this big. Or with such sharp teeth. Or with such a hungry look in its eyes. Lucie realises her new pet is not a dog…but a wolf. Not only that, but a wolf with magical powers. A talking wolf is not an easy thing to…
Windscape is an eco thriller that explores the passions on both sides of the wind farm debate. Young Jenny MacLeod’s father is about to lose the family farm because of mounting debts. The only way for her and her father to keep their beautiful Hushwish Bay island home is to sign up to a wind turbine…
Genre: Adventure, Coming of Age, Danger, Eco, Fiction, Mystery, Strident, ThrillerSubjects: Acceptance, Diversity, Eco, Journey, self-awareness
From Traffic & Travel to Lulu, Andy Williams & Glen Campbell…via Beechgrove & the BBC Comedy Unit. Joyful, hilarious tales from one of Scotland’s best known voices – the antidote to misery memoirs. “It’s fun being me. Loads of people know what I sound like, but hardly anyone recognises me.” Theresa Talbot – ‘TT’ to many…
Genre: Celebrity, Humour, Memoir, Non-fiction, StridentSubjects: Andy Williams, BBC, Beechgrove, Chickens, Christmas, Comedy, Family, Gardening, Glasgow, Glen Campbell, Humour, Journey, Lulu, Radio, Scotland, self-awareness, traffic, travel
The Danny Lansing Adventures, book 1 Adrenaline at your fingertips! Watch: Trailer for The Sons of Rissouli and Red, White & Black by Matt Cartney When Danny goes to live with his cool Uncle Angus, he knows life will never be the same again. But he doesn’t expect to be catapulted into a world of guns, explosions and high-speed chases.…
Genre: Adventure, Coming of Age, Fiction, Strident, Thriller, TravelSeries: The Danny Lansing Adventures | Subjects: Africa, discovery, Investigating, journalism, Journey, Roadtrip
Thirteen years ago baby Daphne was found outside London’s all-girl Orphanage of St Jude. Insecure and emotionally guarded she has grown up longing to fulfil two dreams: to discover her family; and to become a star ballerina. When she receives from an anonymous sender a book containing a tantalising riddle and a magical pair of…
The Danny Lansing Adventures, book 3 Adrenaline at your fingertips! A lost city, a legendary treasure and a brutal curse. All lie at the centre of a tangle of lies…and worse. There could be any number of explanations for the sudden disappearance of Angus’s archaeologist friend into the Central American rainforest. Crocodiles, jaguars…even Guatemalan drug smugglers. With…
Watch the brilliant series trailer! The 1st book in The Peck Chronicles – a major new 9+ fantasy adventure series James stands alone, high on a Scottish hillside. He stares down at a massive, three-toed footprint…and the crushed animal within it. Is the creature that formed it responsible for James’s father’s sudden and unexplained disappearance?…
Catalyst Book Award winnerWatch: Trailer for the novels of Linda Strachan WINNER OF THE 2010 CATALYST BOOK AWARD. Spider is on his last warning. If he’s caught joyriding again he’ll be sent down, no questions asked. He’s trying to stick to the straight and narrow but his girlfriend Deanna and mate Andy reckon he should risk one…
Genre: Coming of Age, Crime, Danger, Fiction, Strident, TeenSeries: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions | Subjects: cars, crime, Family, Loss, teenagers
For 65 years, the wreckage of an aeroplane has lain scattered on a remote Norwegian mountainside – a poignant and lonely memorial to the failure of its clandestine wartime mission. But when Danny and his uncle, Angus, discover that secret wartime documents are rumoured to have been within the plane, they decide they must investigate.…
Genre: Adventure, Coming of Age, Danger, Fiction, Strident, Thriller, TravelSeries: The Danny Lansing Adventures | Subjects: art, crime, discovery, journalism, Journey, Nazis, Norway, Poland, self-awareness, war
“From the moment you are born you start to die.” So says Pierre Anthon when he decides there is no meaning to life, leaves the classroom, climbs a plum tree and stays there. His friends and classmates cannot get him to come down – not even by pelting him with rocks. To prove to him…
Nothing is ever straightforward when Lee is around! Not even a summer holiday in Spain… It ought to be a case of lazing by the pool, but Lee is soon spying on dodgy men in shiny suits and sunglasses, battling with a family that seems determined to ruin everyone’s holiday and haranguing horrendous holiday reps.…
Lee has won the chance to be The First Child In Space. It’s amazing what you can win these days by filling in a form on the back of a cereal packet! Under the command of Captain Slogg, and with Sports Bob at the controls, Lee blasts off for the Moon on the trip of…
Genre: Adventure, Fiction, Humour, Space, StridentSeries: Lee | Subjects: Comedy, gravity, Humour, Journey, Moon, orbit, space, travel
Meeting his dad’s multizillionaire employer inspires ten-year-old Lee to come up with a brilliant get-rich-quick scheme of his own. But not everyone is keen for Lee to succeed. Local shopkeeper Panface certainly isn’t, and it seems that he has sneaky spies out there, trying to ruin Lee’s plans. Will Lee overcome those out to stop…
Read: Lee and the Consul Mutants extract – chapter 2 or Lee and the Consul Mutants extract – chapter 2 Former No. 1 in The Herald’s Children’s Bestsellers chart. It’s not every day that a part of your body explodes. But ten-year-old Lee’s appendix does just that, landing him in hospital. After his operation, Lee discovers that being in…
Branford Boase shortlistImagine if your mother was a witch! ‘Jessica thought for the thousandth time it was a terrible nuisance having a witch for a mother. Other people’s mothers had sensible hobbies. They did not go around pretending they could charm warts, or offer potions for ingrowing toe-nails. Nor did they dress up in long black…
Rebel Angels – Book 4 Death stalks Seth MacGregor’s clan in their otherworld exile. Kate NicNiven is close to ultimate victory, and she is determined that nothing will keep her from it. Not even the thing that took her soul: the horror that lurks in the sea caves. But Kate still needs Seth’s son Rory,…
