The Odds - Couverture souple

Adam Perrott is a former bookseller who spent his days dreaming about writing. Now he writes. The moral? Daydreaming works! As well as writing books, bad jokes, and poems, he is a full-time father. In 2011, his debut "Eerie Deirdre Darkly" won the inaugural Beryl Bainbridge Award for a First Time Author at The People's Book Prize. Tom Maclaughlin studied at Falmouth College of Arts and has since worked as a cartoonist and an animation designer for Nick Toons. He has also published a picture books, "The Diabolical Mr Tiddles". Tom lives in Devon with his wife, two boys and sleepy cat.

Have you ever put down a drink, gone to do something else, and come back to find the drink is nowhere to be seen? That's the Odds. Mrs Odd, Mr Odd and the twins, Edgar and Elsie are a family of Professional Pranksters. They delight in making mischief, and playing tricks on each other, or on the unsuspecting residents of the town of Trott. But they meet their match in the Plopwells - a seemingly unflappable couple whose dastardly plans make the Odds look like a bunch of goody-goodies. Can the Odds work together to defeat the fiendish pair?