Books with author Simon Hartwell

Harry Potter meets James Bond as Quentin joins a school for young spies and learns of a rogue organisation that threatens the world.Solve the puzzles, break the codes and help Quentin identify the Undercover Agent.Quentin James, searching for the truth about his parents, finds himself surrounded by rogue undercover agents, armed men, and a series of troubling unanswered questions when he joins Edgewater, a secondary school for young spies. With almost no experience and little knowledge of what he’s up against, he embarks on an adventure as he tries to outsmart, outwit, and stay out of the crosshairs of a rogue organization that threatens the world..Follow Quentin’s story as he unravels the clues and exposes the Undercover Agent, while doing his part to save the world!Car Chases, Spyience Classes, Coded Messages, Undercover Agents, Armed Men, Submarines, Girls and his first kiss! Quentin has to face them all in this thrilling adventure.

A GHOSTLY TREASURE QUEST ADVENTUREHe sees everythingHands upon his faceHe considers his good fortuneTo be able to plead his case Quentin and his friends join Unwin at his family home up in Scotland. There they learn of the family legend, the lost gold of the Jacobite uprising. But they are not alone in their search. Someone else is looking for the gold too!Myths, Legends, Ghosts and Gold, Join Quentin as he searches for Treasure in this ghostly mystery.

LOCKDOWN SPECIAL PRICEFirst published as a HARRY POTTER fanfiction story, the Witches' Eye proposes an unofficial theory of the origins of the Deathly Hallows, and why the French and Belgium Magic schools didn't come to Hogwarts's aid. Now a story within its own trilogy, The Prince of Light, is In the Realms of Lord of the Rings and Shannara, an epic sword and sorcery fantasy.MacbethACT I SCENE I A desert place. [Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches] First Witch: When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch: When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun.First Witch: Where the place? Second Witch: Upon the heath. Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth. First Witch: I come, graymalkin! Second Witch: Paddock calls.Third Witch: Anon! ALL: Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. Following the trail of the Ark of the Covenant,Quentin discovers Shakespeare’s Macbeth is not just a tale of tragedy, but a prophecy and a warning echoing down through the ages. Quentin and his friends embark on a perilous adventure to retrieve the Witches’ Eye from the Dark Wizards’ Castle, which in the hands of evil forces can be used to scry the future and see the prophecy come to fruition.Witches, Wizards, Goblins, Dryads, Kraken, Wyvern, and Mongolian Ninja Assassins, Quentin and his friends meet them all in this thrilling blend of History, Myth and Legend.

QUENTIN AND HIS FRIENDS SEEK TO THWART THE GROWING THREAT OF THE ROGUE ORGANISATION CALLED I.O.N.He searched inside the void for anything else and felt the smooth round edges of a coin. His heart skipped a beat as the glint of gold caught in his torch light. ‘TREASURE!’ he breathed aloud.Quentin James and his friends are off to the Loch of Arthur for a holiday. Whilst having a fantastic time, swimming and hiking, they explore a secret passageway which leads to an old abandoned castle built into the cliffs.That's when things start to get really exciting.Capture, Escape, Enemy I.O.N Agents, Treasure, Merlin and having to dress as a girlQuentin faces all these challenges and more in his second most dangerous mission yet.

8yrs +Middle Grade Time Travelling Adventure for boys and girlsDr Who meets the Goonies. Where the strength of friendship is championed Every small town in America has a house that is, well, creepy, spooky, scary even, and Alex Powell has inherited such a house in the small town of Danville USA.Oh and it's haunted. It even has its own rhyme.'Once you go in, you never come out.' 'Never a scream, never a shout.''Never heard again or seen about.'Alex has discovered the library within has been protecting the house, his new home, by trapping would be Treasure, and Ghost Hunters within its books, their ghosts left behind to haunt the house for evermore.Together with his new friends, Katie, Lucy, Chuck & Chip, Alex sets about freeing the trapped souls by entering the books and bringing them out, placing themselves in great peril.But Alex is not the only stranger in town..........An Unsolved murder in Australia, The Titanic, and London during the Blitz await Alex and his friends as they seek to find and return those trapped within.I have teamed up with The Magic Ladder to provide engaging content to struggling readers of all ages for free.If you are a parent, student, or teacher please check out the new Book Excerpt section of the Magic Ladder library: https://mlc.learningstewards.org/excerpts-index/

LOCK DOWN SPECIAL PRICESALAM is a town where a lot is happening.Four kids are missing. The police are searching, the TV News is talking of a child snatcher, only one boy knows the truth. Pete is the school weirdo, often seen talking to himself, he is shunned and bullied, not least by his own Father.A ghostly sighting of Giles Corey is thought to herald an impending disaster which has the town on edge.Witches are abroad in Salem and up to mischief.And the undead walk amongst the townsfolk, only they are unaware of their presence.

QUENTIN AND HIS FRIENDS RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK TO STOP AN ACT OF TERROR THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!I.O.N is over, brought down by Quentin and his friends finally in Japan.But they soon discover it was all a ruse, a red herring, carried out by the Council of Thirteen to keep them occupied whilst they carry out their real plans. Building secret bases in the Arctic and Antarctic.A cyber team uncovered the ruse when they find a coded message hidden inside a computer game. (Read CYBER SLEUTHS for this exciting adventure)Unwin is kidnapped and Quentin and his friends immediately plan a rescue.With the clock ticking, Quentin and his friend race to free Unwin not realising it’s a trap!

QUENTION RACES AGAINST TIME AS HE BATTLES I.O.N TO END THEIR GLOBAL THREATAfter pulling off a daring rescue, Quentin flies to Japan with the Edgewater paintball team to represent the United Kingdom in the first ever Global War GamesThere, he makes some new friends, discovers the last I.O.N Base, battles the rogue agency I.O.N, to rescue his parents and a captured agent.Join Quentin as he faces his most dangerous mission yet!

An epic fantasy in the tradition of The Lord of the Rings and Shannara.Lucifer has the Book of the Dead and needs The Cauldron to bring back Genghis Khan to lead the Demon Horde and her Army of the UnDead to bring about the End of Days.The Demon Horde is closing in on Adriana, the Queen of the Magic, who guards the Cauldron.Quentin and his friends join forces to protect the Cauldron and save the world.The forces of The Light and The Dark clash in a titanic struggle as old as time.