The world was at war, and for Sophia and Tom Place, their new home would be the safety of a farm in Wiltshire.
That was until they created a simple way of using their favourite books to write codes and send top secret messages. They were The Book Spies and the first members of the Children’s Reading Intelligence Agency.
Follow the Book Spies over a 70 year journey as they save endangered species, prevent the theft of priceless art and literature, rescue the secrets of the CRIA from a crashed aircraft and stop an explosion at a computer gamers’ festival.
About the Author
Mark Carton was raised in Birmingham. The son of a cleaner and a sheet metal worker, he scraped through school with enough grades to go ‘up north’ to university, and has spent the last thirty years doing every job from unsuccessful NCP car park attendant to top performing ‘foam hand’ salesman on the Radio One Roadshow.
Whilst working at weekends on a market stall at the Newcastle Quayside, just below the iconic Tyne Bridge, he took along his netbook and started writing a story. It was a longer version of a bedtime story he had made up for his daughter a couple of years earlier. From then his destiny was set; he was to be a writer…
