Allen & Unwin The Secret Diary of Thomas Snoop, Tudor Boy Spy book English Paperback 192 pages

Fact meets fiction in this exciting story of Tudor espionage and intrigue!

Thomas Snoop is a Tudor boy spy. Ordered by England’s spymaster, Lord Severn, to travel to the beautiful Goldenhilt Hall, home of the Earl of Drayshire, Thomas has been given a most important mission: to help the fight against fellow Englishmen who are plotting with a foreign power – the Spanish! It will take all Thomas’s wits and cunning to uncover the traitors lurking at Goldenhilt Hall –and he must do so without being discovered himself...

Philip Ardagh is the author of The Grunts. He is probably best known for his Grubtown Tales, but he is author of over 100 books. He is a 'regular irregular' reviewer of children’s books for The Guardian, and is currently developing a series for television. Philip Ardagh is two metres tall with a ridiculously big, bushy beard and size sixteen feet, making him an instantly recognisable figure at literary festivals around the world.Jamie Littler lives in London. He is an illustrator who graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2008. When not trying to tame his un-naturally fast growing hair or having staring matches with next door's cat, he likes drawing, colouring in, cutting things out and sticking things in. Jamie's books include Hamish and the Worldstoppers, which was the bestselling children's debut of 2015 and Wilf the Mighty Worrier, shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards.