John Hearne – författare

Indigo McCloud’s sister Peaches is every adult's favourite child: pretty, golden-haired, polite and charming. But the children of Blunt know better: Peaches and her sisters are a gang of bullies who will stop at nothing to get their way.This is the story of Indigo’s battle to stop his sisters. Leaping across the rooftops of Blunt, he tries to keep one step ahead of their wicked schemes –but he has to tangle with 437 hungry geese, an avalanche of toilets, curry farts, bungling policemen, vicious eels, a pig in a witch's hat, a three legged spider with a toilet brush and a dangerous villain in odd socks …

Martin's parents have disappeared. Also, it turns out, they are aliens. Which makes Martin ?Then Martin and Tina discover enormous light-emitting eggs in an abandoned mine. It is clear they are not going to be hatching out anything cuddly. And so the kids try to blow them up. But instead of blowing up, huge killer insects hatch, and go on a mission to destroy all human life on earth. Oops.Having first rescued Martin's parents, the kids steal a cop car and then an ambulance. Eventually they fly, using Martin's power of telekinesis someone really has been tinkering with reality in thrilling pursuit of the killer insects.Martin and Tina's friend Enda has assembled an extraordinary zapper that the children use to take down the evil insects, one by one by one out of the sky.And that is how these amazing kids actually, literally save the world.