Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds

It's the holidays, you've just become as small as an earwig, the swallows are back (and offering you rides), and a spider wakes you up in the middle of the night and asks you to save the world. As if that weren't enough, the Ladybirdz fly in from Bohemia to find the local ladybirds do not want them... The world of Aubrey, the boy who can talk to animals (and understand the answers) grows larger and faster in this moving and hilarious story from award-winning children's author Horatio Clare.

Horatio Clare's first book for Children, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, won the Branford Boase Award for a first children's novel in 2016, and was longlisted for the Carnegie CILIP medal, and the UKLA children's book award, among others. His first adult book, Running for the Hills, an acclaimed account of his Welsh childhood, won a Somerset Maugham Award, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and saw Horatio shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His other books include Truant, A Single Swallow, The Prince's Pen and the best-selling travelogue, Down to the Sea in Ships (winner of the Standford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2015 and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2015). His essays and reviews appear regularly in the national press and on BBC radio.