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Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery

Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery

by Alexander McCall Smith and Kate Hindley
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/07/2018

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Start your engines and get in gear for an action-packed story from the bestselling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, with fun and energetic illustrations by Kate Hindley.

When Max finds an old car that has his last name – Champion – on the bonnet, he learns that his grandfather used to make some of the best cars around...and race them! That is, until his ideas book and his favourite car, Arabella, were stolen by greedy rival Mr Grabber.

Can Max find a way to get back what Grandfather Gus lost? And will Arabella ever be seen again?

ISBN:
9781408886137
9781408886137
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-07-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x16mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. His career has been a varied one: for many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Then, after the publication of his highly successful No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty million copies, he devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty languages and become bestsellers through the world.

The series include the Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman, the Sunday Philosophy Club series starring Isabel Dalhousie, the von Igelfeld series, and the new Corduroy Mansions novels. Alexander is also the author of collections of short stories, academic works, and over thirty books for children.

He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for service to literature in 2007. He holds honorary doctorates from nine universities in Europe and North America.

Alexander McCall Smith lives in Edinburgh. He is married to a doctor and has two daughters.

Kate Hindley

Kate Hindley is an exciting talent in the world of picture books, and is renowned for her deliciously detailed illustrations, and lively characterization.

After studying at the Falmouth School of Art, she has gone on to illustrate a number of picture books including How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth, Worst in Show and Don’t Call Me Choochie Pooh!, as well as fiction titles for older children such as the The Naughtiest Girl series written by Enid Blyton. Kate lives in Birmingham, not far from the chocolate factory.

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