Books with author Thomas Taylor

In the second fantasy set in Eerie-on-Sea, Herbert and Violet team up to solve the mystery of Gargantis — an ancient creature of the deep with the power to create life-threatening storms.There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder. With the help of the daring Violet Parma, ever-reliable Herbie will do his best to figure out what the Gargantis wants and who stole her treasure in the first place. In a town full of suspicious, secretive characters, it could be anyone!

Does history have a ghost of a chance?Eddie, Adam, David. Three boys, three generations, one gift: the ability to travel through time. Through a portal of dreams, they can appear as ghosts, wherever and whenever they want. The first boy, Eddie, is the genius who has sworn to protect the past and carry on the dreamwalker's code. The second, Adam, is a haunter, a dream-terrorist, dead-set on changing history for his own nefarious ends. The third, David, is the neophyte who must fight for the future by keeping the other two apart! Can he surf the time warps, back and forth between 1940s London and today, to save the present from oblivion?

Dan can see ghosts. See then, speak to them, and sometimes help them...for a price. In his second adventure, Dan is on a school trip to France when he gets mixed up in skulduggery down in the Paris catacombs. Can Dan save the living, help the unquiet dead, avoid getting himself killed - and do it all under the eye of an enraged French teacher? Brilliantly dark humour.

Dan can see ghosts. See them, speak to them, and sometimes help them - for a price. Dan and his ghostly sidekick Simon (who took a bullet in the brain a few hundred years ago) help the unquiet dead solve their problems and move on to wherever they go. But when they take on the case of a teenage shoplifter, things start to spin out of control. Soon Dan is up against a very dangerous and very badly dressed gangster, and he's also got to cope with a rather unusual vicar, the ghost of a Victorian stage magician who cut off his own head (don't ask) and a spot of grave robbing. It's all in a night's work...

Dan can see ghosts. See then, speak to them, and sometimes help them...for a price. In his third adventure, poltergeist activity is plaguing one of London's tallest, oddest buildings, the Shard. Dan must try to fight off an enraged spirit and a very much alive fraudulent medium, while saving a little girl, working out what his ghostly sidekick is hiding from him and not plummeting to his death. Some of those things will be easier than others. An exciting, funny urban fantasy with a dark gothic twist.

Mia and Pookey are the best of friends. Pookey is a small egg shaped creature, who came to life thanks to a lightning storm. Waiting for the paddling pool to fill up with water, Mia and the half pig half mouse creature go on an adventure through a rainforest. The rainforest is Mia's back garden. They ride on the back of a zebra galloping through the skyscraper grass. An enormous snake halts them in their tracks, where they meet Lily the ladybird. They help her search for the golden gem treasure in the rainforest full of train sized centipedes and collosal snails. Pookey falls into danger. Will he escape? Will they find the golden gem treasure before the army of ants get to it? Find out in this new edition to the Pookey The Mousepig series.

After living on Samhain Island for a couple of months, Tremaine now is friends with both Skyler the Krampus and Hannah, the girl from a family of monster hunters. As she becomes closer to both of them, she must try to keep both worlds separate – a hard task to do with nosy parents, a bossy walking skeleton, and a professional monster hunter on your back.

Samhain Island is riddled with conspiracy theories, urban legends, and various monsters. This is the island Tremaine Boppel moved to with her family. She's happy to start over in a new town, but what's in that tower by her apartment? Why will the tenant never come out? She's about to unearth that there's more to this island besides silly stories and shadows.

Dan can see ghosts. See then, speak to them, and sometimes help them...for a price. In his third adventure, poltergeist activity is plaguing one of London's tallest, oddest buildings, the Shard. Dan must try to fight off an enraged spirit and a very much alive fraudulent medium, while saving a little girl, working out what his ghostly sidekick is hiding from him and not plummeting to his death. Some of those things will be easier than others. An exciting, funny urban fantasy with a dark gothic twist.

Mia loves to draw and has a vivid imagination. Her imagination takes her everywhere. She draws Pookey on a piece of paper. Scared of a lightning storm overhead she flees downstairs to her father. A brilliant blue bolt reaches through the window and zaps the piece of paper, bringing Pookey to life. Mia and Pookey, a half pig half mouse creature become the best of friends. Pookey shares a secret with Mia. He has a magical tail that shrinks her down to his size. Together they go on a journey through a vast desert, passed the Kingdom of Pharoahs towards the ocean. They go camel back riding and flying on a genie's magic carpet. They explore sunken pirate ships and hide from tooth filled sharks. Will they escape from the shark before they run out of breath? A magical story full of friendship and imagination.