Olly Spellmaker & the Sulky Smudge - Hardcover

Creaking floorboards, spooky spectres, things that go bump in the night. Are you brave enough to go on a ghost hunt...? Olly Spellmaker wears leathers, cooks up spells, rides a motorbike...and is old enough to be Alex's granny. Much as he likes her, she can be so irritating. Right now, for example, she needs Alex's help and she won't take no for an answer. She needs to find some ghosts to haunt a disturbingly unscary house and Alex is boy who can 'twingle' - or sense spectres. The problem is, he doesn't know what sort until they've materialised. And a soggy White Lady, a complaining Green Lady and a grungy, grey blob who does nothing but hang there aren't quite what Olly had in mind...

Susan Price started writing and telling stories when she was very young - and was winning prizes for it from the age of fourteen. Her first novel was bought by a publisher when she was sixteen. Since then, she has written many books for children and young adults and has won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal.