Lee Newbery

Holomonsters – join the game that comes alive . . . In Holomonsters, your bedroom can become a battlefield, as monsters, spells and artefacts are brought to life through the magic of hologram technology. But when superfan Newt Hawkin is invited to Holomonsters HQ to test a new version of the game, he discovers its engineers are using real magic to take it to dangerous new levels. Can Newt stop them before the holomonsters break free from their creators' control for good . . . ?Pokemon meets Jumanji in this action-packed new series perfect for fans of Christopher Edge’s Escape Room and Katie and Kevin Tsang’s Dragon Mountain.

Peter Pan meets Oliver Twist in the magical new book by rising star Lee Newbery, author of Waterstones Children''s Book of the Month, The Last Firefox.When ten-year-old Theo runs off from a school trip to London''s Natural History Museum and decides to pay his gran a surprise visit, he discovers the surprise is on him - his gran is on holiday and Theo finds himself alone in the big city with nowhere to turn.Enter Alistair Goodfellow, a mysterious, flamboyant young person with a charismatic twinkle in their eye. Alistair offers Theo a room at the Casablanca Lily - by day, a run-down and unloved hotel; by night, a palace of magical wonders.Each night, Alistair sends their found family of runaways and ne''er-do-wells, the Moonlighters, out into London in search of lost magical artefacts, gifting them their own magical powers as a reward.Theo is quickly enthralled, but there is more to Alistair than meets the eye, and soon Theo comes to realize that the items Alistair is hunting could be more dangerous than he''d ever imagined . . .