The Ballad of the Borad
Written by Jonathan Macho
Cover and artwork by Steve Beckett
School trips are never simple when it comes to Lucy and Hobo. There’s always an adventure just around the corner.
Spending the day at Bristol Zoo, Lucy hopes to have a normal day out, but it’s not long before she realises the zoo has gone wild!
The animals have escaped and, Lucy’s no expert, but these animals aren’t quite what Lucy was expecting: a fish-bird, a cat-snake, a tortoise-spider and a huge, lumping elephant-frog!
As Bristol Zoo welcomes visitors for the very last time in 2022, Lucy Wilson joins many other visitors in looking back at what makes the zoo special to her as she says a final goodbye.
Kick-starting the new quartet of adventures is fairly-new-to-the-scene author Jonathan Machowith his short story The Ballad of the Borad, which is an action-packed tribute and farewell to the recently closed Bristol Zoo. Jonathan is an exciting new talent from Cardiff who’s first novel The Lucy Wilson Mysteries: The Serpent’s Tongue was very well received by fans of the series.
Jonathan said::
The Invisible Women
Written by John Peel
Cover and artwork by Steve Beckett
2020 has only just begun, and it already feels like it’s going to be full of back-to-back adventures as Lucy’s time ring sends her and Hobo on their second adventure of the year.
On arrival, our Ogmore-by-Sea teenage heroes have no idea where (or when) they are. They are just grateful that it isn’t lunchtime, as they crash land right in the middle of a dinner table surrounded by strange faces!
With invisible women lurking around every corner, how can they defeat someone when they can’t even see them? Add ghosts, ferocious fairies, Harry Houdini, HG Wells, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into the mix, and this is one strange time traveling escapade. But who is the monster behind this kaleidoscope of calamities, and why does it want Lucy’s time ring?
Lucy and Hobo are about to find out…
Popular author John Peelwriter of the third book in the Lucy Wilson series The Midnight Peoplereturns with his second full-length novel The Lucy Wilson Mysteries: The Invisible Womenbut there’s a twist – the new novel crosses over with the ongoing Lethbridge-Stewart spin-off series, Travers & Wells.
Range editor Andy Frankham-Allen says:
In The Invisible Women, Lucy is transported back in time for an Edwardian adventure that includes ghosts, ferocious fairies, Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as some irksome invisible women. On their adventure, Lucy and Hobo pair up with popular character in the Lethbridge-Stewart series Edward Travers and his companion HG Wells, in an attempt to stop the monster behind a kaleidoscope of calamities!
John said:
The Mystery of Lucy Wilson: Memories of the Future
Written by George Ivanoff
Cover and artwork by Steve Beckett
Melbourne, 1985. Matty is just an ordinary boy having an ordinary evening, browsing for books in his favorite sci-fi shop. Until he meets a girl. A girl who appears out of thin air, into a locked room, and can’t remember who she is or where she came from.
And then Matty’s day gets slightly less ordinary when he encounters time-travelling killer plant people from outer space.
For Matty to put things right, he must work out who his new friend Lucy Wilson is, and why he is suddenly not so ordinary.
Following on directly from The Invisible Women is The Mystery of Lucy Wilson: Memories of the Future by George Ivanoffwhich is the first book in a three-part time travel adventure set in Australia.
George said:
Much of the book’s setting is based around my own teenage years. I grew up in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The library and lifesaving club mentioned in the book were places that I used to ride my bike to. And, just like the characters in this book, in 1985 I attended Aussiecon 2, the 43rd World Science Fiction Convention, as Melbourne was the host city. It was heaps of fun, taking these elements from my formative years, and weaving them into Memories of the Future.
Fans of The Lucy Wilson Mysteries may notice the change in the series title to The Mystery of Lucy Wilson for this three-part instalment, because Lucy Wilson truly is a mystery to both herself and her new friends, but Lucy is not the only mystery in this story!
George continued:
The Mystery of Lucy Wilson: Rampage of the Drop Bears
Written by Baz Greenland
Cover and artwork by Steve Beckett
Melbourne, 1985. Fred’s best friend Matty has vanished. And now he’s found a new friend, Lucy Wilson.
Lucy doesn’t remember much about herself, but what she does know is that she’s from the future. But time travel isn’t possible, is it?
Aliens, drop bears on a rampage, a Pleistocene safari, a trip to Sydney Olympic Stadium in 2000, and a vicious baby running riot through time. Will Lucy and Fred ever be able to restore the timeline, or has their life as they knew it changed forever?
And last in the newly released quartet is The Mystery of Lucy Wilson: Rampage of the Drop Bears by Baz Greenlandwhich is the second book in the three-part time travel adventure set in Australia.
Baz said:
Lucy finds herself back in Melbourne in 1985 and she still doesn’t know who she is or where and when she’s come from! All she does know is that her time ring seems to be defunct and she’s being taken on an even bigger adventure than she’s ever been on before.
Baz continued:
The Invisible Women, The Battle of the Borad, Memories of the Future and Rampage of the Drop Bears are all available to pre-order via the Candy Jar shop and will be posted out at the end of October.
The third book in the Mystery of Lucy Wilson trilogy will conclude next year.