Jack Joliffe Goes Forth
A big bold adventure for 8–12-year-olds. Set inside St James’s Palace in a parallel present, it’s a story of intrigue and mistaken identity, wittily told in the first person by a feisty androgynous narrator.
There are palace plots, a secret school, a dysfunctional royal family and all the extraordinary ancient beasts of Albion. It’s an exciting new world to get lost in and is poised to become the start of a series.
Beautifully produced in hardback with a loose cover, an endpapers map, and lively illustrations throughout.
‘This Palace is full of secrets, Jack. And you’re one of them.’
When 12-year-old Jack Joliffe is summoned to St James’s Palace to become a Royal Keeper, no one is more surprised than she. Hidden deep underground Jack discovers a secret world of dragons and fairies, jabberwocks and ghosts… and in a lonely tower a sickly prince the same age as her, who never wants to be king…
There are lives to be saved, dragons to be slain, ancient magic to be outwitted, and games of Jackernapes to be won.
Join Jack as she tells her amazing adventure from the bottom of the palace to the top, and beyond….
Henry Chancellor’s The Remarkable Adventures of Tom Scatterhorn was translated into 15 languages. He has also written best-selling non-fiction (Colditz, James Bond: The man and his World) and adult fiction. As a TV producer and director he has made many series and won awards, including an Emmy and a Grierson..