Bikes, walkie-talkies, weird maps and worse. Stories where the kids handle it because the grown-ups won't, written to earn the late-night torch under the duvet.
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Standalone adventures in the same funny-frightening world. Meet Felix Jones, a boy who can build a radio out of a biscuit tin but can't build himself out of trouble.
A small town, a strange old man, and a weird map. The kind of summer that starts with bikes and walkie-talkies and ends with trouble you don't tell your parents about, because they'd never believe you anyway.
A digital detox in a sleepy Welsh village was supposed to be boring. Then twelve-year-old Josiah is trapped aboard a prototype submarine, with a strange link to the creature guarding the ocean floor. To save his brother, he'll have to unleash it.
Felix's class trip lands on Blackglass Island: a museum of dead time, a lighthouse, clockwork crabs on the shingle, and a Curator who tidies away anything out of place. Out in 2026.
Also by Malory
Malory has stories in Raconteur Press's anthologies for young readers, edited by David Bandurina.
Ten tales of monsters and the kids who befriend them.
Stories of first contact, strange arrivals and cosmic adventure.
Tales from the worlds inside the games.
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I'm Malory. I write adventure novels for children, I'm researching a doctorate on why kids stop reading for pleasure, and I spend whole days in schools turning that around. Pitched for Years 4–6.
About Malory
Malory writes the books behind Chaos & Chills. Written for my own son, with one rule: every chapter needs a reason to keep reading. No lectures, no detours, no easy outs. The kind of book that earns the late-night torch under the duvet.
Away from the page: doctoral research at the University of Worcester into why children stop reading for pleasure, the 2026 Jim Baen Memorial Award, and a review column at Tangent Online. Published by Watchful Wizard and Raconteur Press.
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