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Chris Riddell turning vampires into recyclable material. #classic

Ada has befriended the ghost mouse Ishmael and Charles Cabbage's children Emily & William who invite her to The Attic Club. On the trail of Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper & what he's keeping in the Bathroom of Zeus. Yet another new governess for Ada has arrived.

Midnight is a wonderful time to start a book called Goth Girl. How can one resist a story with blunderbuss-carrying cycling poet Lord, a daughter who has an eight-poster bed and sees a Ghost Mouse in a place with The Avenue of Outrageous Fortune! #booknerddelights

After all, it only takes three chords and two and half minutes of a great PPP song to break your heart or to make you feel invincible.

A boy is born to Eunice and Oliver - a bastard. Oliver, a farmer abandons him in the woods. The boy survives and eventually comes in contact with Mr Hamelius H Peabody, a travelling circus leader. Peabody gives the boy a job as A Wild Boy. Adopted into the travelling show he is named Amos.

Their father was a constant to their mother's flight ones. Anola? Has called to say she's coming home in July.

We meet Simon Watson following a storm at Long Island Sound. His neighbour McAvoy joins him to reset the swimming area damaged by weather. Simon's mother, a circus performer drowned her but could hold her breath for 11 mins. His sister Anola? Has followed in her mothers footsteps with tarot and is regularly absent. Their father is passed also.

Language rich so far. Remote Cornish creek village 1947. Marvellous ways is 89 and waiting for something she sensed in a dream. First World War lay waste to the village and in the second she met Henry Manfred Gladstone II. When he leaves to return to war, she tells him to go left and he'll know when.

Giuseppe is the former chief operater of The Zerstor. Whilst climbing inside to make repairs, the machine starts working and his legs are taken. At first lawyers blame alcohol but then a year later a fault is discovered and Giuseppe is compensated. He has began a covert operation to find the books printed from the pulp which contains his legs.

In the Gallery of Time the hands of the Wintertide Clock moved to 6pm. The clock chimed. The chime was beautiful and terrible at the same time. The bells rang out a cascading song of sadness. Those who heard it said it was like glass breaking, other attested it was the sound of tears. Some said it was like the wind crying, and others said that it was like the falling snow.

I invest in you, the power to be the defender of goodness and happiness and hope.

TMB is 303, same as his room number.

Be kind to everyone whom you meet along the way, and things will be well. Kindness is far stronger than any cruelty. Always extend your hand in friendship. Be patient. You may feel alone, but there will always be people who will help you along the way. Never, ever give up.

...Nothing miraculous ever happened on Thursdays.

...to never give up, even when you feel lonely and a long way from home."

All his remaining magic, every last ounce of that he had left in his body, he put inside a feather and the said; Child, eat of me.

The strangest thing I have learned is that it's impossible to know what's inside someone. ..Those who appear tall and straight and very good are sometimes rotten on the inside, and others, huge and clawed and apparently very bad, sometimes contain a pure and sweet form of goodness. The biggest trap is to judge a parson by their outer casting. Their skin. Their hair. Their snow-white feathers.

TMB is so good the Wizards know him to be "a boy child who shall undertake a treacherous journey to deliver a magical sword to the One Other to defeat the Snow Queen. The Protectorate take his name. "Where it has joined you, it has stepped into your skin & into your essence & into your soul."

Enter Ophelia Jane Worthington-Wilttard, daughter of Malcolm, expert on swords, and sister to Alice, gloomy teenager who likes to listen to music. They all live in a post-wife/mother world where their father works at a museum with rooms devoted to teaspoons, telephones and one mysterious room 303.

The newly married snow queen has her sights on The Marvelous Boy. She takes away his sword and locks him up and the king is powerless despite his obvious admiration for his faithful companion and a charm on the queen preventing her from harming TMB.

Guylain Vignolles doesn't appear to like his day job. His father doesn't think he's cut out for it. Operating a machine, a Zerstor 500 "The Thing was born to crush, flatten, pound, squish, tear, chop, lacerate, shred, mix, knead and boil.

He enunciated the words whatever they were with the same passionate dedication. And each time, the magic worked.

For all those fellow commuters, he was the reader, the bizarre character who each weekday would read out, in a loud, clear voice from the handful of pages he extracted from his briefcase. ..Guylain had no interest in the content. Only the act of reading mattered to him.