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Jack Joliffe Goes Forth 2021

Set inside St James’s Palace in a parallel present, Jack Joliffe Goes Forth is a brand new adventure for 9–12-year-olds. It’s a big bold story of intrigue and mistaken identity, wittily told in the first person by a feisty androgynous narrator.

There are palace plots, a secret school, a dysfunctional royal family and all the extraordinary ancient beasts of Albion. It’s an exciting new world to get lost in and is poised to become the start of a series.

Beautifully produced in hardback with a loose cover, an endpapers map, and lively illustrations throughout …

Here is the flap blurb …


‘This Palace is full of secrets, Jack.
And you’re one of them.’

When 12-year-old year old Jack Joliffe is summoned to St James’s Palace to become a Royal Keeper, no one is more surprised than she.

Hidden deep underground Jack discovers a secret world of dragons and fairies, jabberwocks and ghosts… and in a lonely tower a sickly prince the same age as her, who never wants to be king…

There are lives to be saved, dragons to be slain, ancient magic to be outwitted, and games of Jackernapes to be won.

Join Jack as she tells her amazing adventure from the bottom of the palace to the top, and beyond…

Available now in selected good bookshops, and of course,
that online one as well …

  • The Aldeburgh Bookshop
  • Browsers, Woodbridge
  • Dial Lane Books, Ipswich
  • Foyles
  • Hatchards, Piccadilly
  • The Hive, Norwich
  • The Halesworth Bookshop
  • Harris and Harris, Clare
  • Red Lion Books, Colchester
  • Toppings
  • The Wivenhoe Bookshop
  • Waterstones

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    If Lewis Carroll and J.K. Rowling created a love-child she would be Jack Joliffe!

    — Mel Giedroyc

    Every so often I experience love at first sight with a book — Jack Joliffe Goes Forth by Henry Chancellor is one such book

    — Hatchards

    Beautifully made and illustrated by the author, this rip-roaring adventure is the ultimate mash up of Potter, Narnia, Tolkein, et al.

    — The Book Hive

    Fantastical adventures abound in this spirited, richly-layered epic

    — LoveReading4Kids.co.uk