Johnny and the Bomb

Oct 5, 2024 3:23 AM

Author:Terry Pratchett

Johnny and the Bomb

From the legendary Terry Pratchett, the author of Discworld, the third instalment in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy

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THIS TIME . . . IT’S WAR.

Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary boy, walking through an ordinary alley . . . until he stumbles across a shopping trolley that can travel back in time.

A trip on this time travelling shopping trolley takes Johnny and his friends back to 1941, in the middle of the Second World War. More specifically, on the day the German bombs will fall on their town.

What if Johnny and his friends could stop it? But tampering with history could have disastrous consequences...

‘Enormously entertaining and contains more wry observations than you could shake a Heinkel at’ – Daily Telegraph

Reviews

Enormously entertaining and contains more wry observations than you could shake a Heinkel at

—— Daily Telegraph

Thrilling and impressively funny

—— Mail on Sunday

Witty dialogue allied to thought-provoking ideas

—— The School Librarian

Gripping and at times quite surreal, the blend of historical fiction and magical realism sets a striking atmosphere

—— BookTrust

The Iron Witch is an interesting combination of fairy magic and alchemy, which makes it very different to a lot of the other fairy-centric novels around at the moment. I like fairies, and I like alchemy, so I felt this was likely to be a winning combination for me and I wasn't disappointed

—— The Bookbag

The Iron Witch was a strongly paced narrative situated firmly in an original, well-developed world with an appealingly imperfect character in Donna Underwood. Mahoney manages to create and maintain a two-tiered plot, preserving the integrity of Donna's character and worldview while dropping enough hints to let the reader intuit dark schemes going on out of Donna's sight

—— Magpie Diaries

Bloody, fast paced and adventurous

—— She Loves to Read

It snares your attention, and keeps it

—— Faerie on the Shelf

Sally Green has fully captured me with this new series

—— This Booky Place

A magical adventure that practically explodes off the page

—— Teach Primary

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