About the Book

A small town. A strange old man. A weird map. The kind of summer that starts with bikes and walkie-talkies and ends with the kind of trouble you don’t tell your parents about because they wouldn’t believe you anyway. The Weird Map in Mr Glimm’s Skull is the first in the Boy’s Own Adventures line — a return to the classic adventure structure that used to pull boys into reading and, somewhere along the way, mostly stopped being written.

Written for my own son with one rule: every chapter needs a reason to keep reading. No lectures, no detours, no easy outs. The kind of book that earns the late-night torch under the duvet.