Terence Blacker Books In Order

Ms Wiz Spells Trouble

‘I go wherever magic is needed,’ said Ms Wiz. ‘Wherever things need livening up.’ Things are certainly livened up at St Barnabas School when Class Three’s new teacher arrives. She has a magic rat, a rather rude owl, and some very special powers. But when Podge’s dad is turned into a warthog and the School Inspector loses his trousers, Class Three has to admit Ms Wiz Spells Trouble!

In Stitches with Ms Wiz

The day Ms Wiz becomes a doctor, the hospital is in for a surprise. Her stethescope plays disco music, a pickled appendix escapes from its jar, and the children’s ward is overrun by mice. This is the second title in the Ms Wiz series.

You’re Nicked, Ms Wiz

Ms. Wiz changed Lizzie Thompson into a cat to foil a gang of catnappers and now she can’t turn her back again. Lizzie’s mother is panicking, and now the evil Mrs. D’Arcy is closing in. But how can Ms. Wiz straighten things out when she’s in jail?This is the third book in the Ms. Wiz series.

In Control, Ms Wiz?

It all seemed so simple. To stop the local library from being closed down, Ms. Wiz sprinkles her special powder over a few books to bring them to life. But soon the greediest man in the world, some Flopsy Bunnies, and a very royal couple are on the loose. Jack and Podge are worried this time, is Ms. Wiz really in control?

Ms Wiz Goes Live

Ms Wiz comes to the rescue of Caroline, left in charge of babysitting for little Musha. Together they all journey into the world of TV and meet some well known characters. Apart from the ‘Ms Wiz’ stories, the author has written ‘If I Could Work’, ‘Here’s Houdini’ and ‘Henry and the Frights’.

Ms Wiz Banned!

The sixth title in the ‘Ms Wiz’ series. Class three’s favourite Paranormal Operative Ms Wiz is back at St Barnabas’ school, this time as Head Teacher! The author also wrote ‘If I Could Work’, ‘Henry and the Frights’, ‘Here’s Houdini’ and ‘The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen’.

Time Flies for Ms Wiz

Jack should never have played with Ms Wiz’s new time machine now he’s vanished in a puff of smoke. To rescue him, Nabila takes off on a weird journey into history and discovers that even time flies when you’re travelling with Ms Wiz.

Power-Crazy Ms Wiz

Podge Harris has a problem. His parents have banned chocolate biscuits and story books and they even want him to change schools. Only Ms Wiz can save the situation with the help of a hypnotic goldfish, the Prime Minister, and, of course, some weird magic.

Ms Wiz Loves Dracula

They meet at the school dance and the ultimate happens Ms Wiz falls in love! Dracula seems shy, but Ms Wiz is sure he’ll come round. Dracula however, is worried he doesn’t know what Ms Wiz will say when she finds out that he lives at No 49 and is better known as the School Inspector.

You’re Kidding, Ms Wiz

When fashion designer, Yves de Chiqueville, comes to town the children of St Barnabas are captured by fashion fever. There is a supermodel there too, the mysterious and unusual Didi Wisteria, better known as Ms Wiz.

Ms Wiz Supermodel

When fashion designer, Yves de Chiqueville, comes to town the children of St Barnabas are captured by fashion fever. There is a supermodel there too, the mysterious and unusual Didi Wisteria, better known as Ms Wiz.

Ms Wiz Smells a Rat

Ms Wiz’s husband Brian, can just about cope with having a paranormal operative for a wife, and a magic baby but he can’t stand living with a talking rat. Poor Herbert must find a new home. Worse still, Herbert’s fallen in love with a street rat and a family is already on the way.

Ms Wiz and the Sister of Doom

Ms Wiz is back at St Barnabas or is she? When the strangely blonde Ms Wiz makes Billie disappear, Jack, Podge and the others realise that this is Ms Wiz’s evil sister Barbara. The real Ms Wiz and the children must rescue Billie before it is too late.

Ms Wiz Goes to Hollywood

Hollywood is full of crazy people, but none of them are as weird as Ms Wiz. This is the 14th adventure about this ‘paranormal operative’.

Ms Wiz Millionaire

Ms Wiz uses a magical device to predict the winning numbers of the lottery and she gets more than she bargined for.

The Secret Life of Ms Wiz

When a talking eagle flies into her garden, Ms Wiz greets it with a hug. It’s her magical old father, King Wisdom, whom she hasn’t seen for years. But she’s not happy when he asks her to be the new ruler of the kingdom of Paranormal Magic and Utter Eternal Mystery. She doesn’t want to leave her life in the real world, or to say goodbye to her friends at St Barnabas School. So she embarks on a whirlwind trip around the world to persuade one of her twenty sisters to become the new queen of the kingdom instead. But is there anyone who is more magical than Ms Wiz? The Secret Life of Ms Wiz is the sixteenth spectacular adventure of the world’s most popular paranormal operative. And it’s the first and only one written by Ms Wiz herself!

The Ms Adventures of Ms Wiz

Audio Cassette, Cavalcade Story Cassettes

Fangtastic, Ms Wiz

Ms Wiz Loves Dracula: Ms Wiz is dancing with a tall, dark haired man with white fangs! The children of Class Three go into action when they realize that Ms Wiz is falling in love with Dracula!Ms Wiz and the Sister of Doom:When Ms Wiz’s evil sister kidnaps Pongo and takes him back to her home dimension, the children stop at nothing to get him back.

Pride and Penalties

Seven girls and one football don’t exactly make a team, but that’s not going to stop any of them. The boys may laugh, but when Eve manages to get the best football coach around, things start to look different. This is the first of a four book series designed for boys and girls.

On the Wing

Jamie O’Keefe has been the Hotshots’ most loyal supporter, but now he’s in trouble with the police. When he disappears, only the Hotshots can help turn his life around.

Fixx

The tale of a comic anti hero of the 1980s, this novel traces the life history of Jonathan Peter Fixx, a man whose career touched on the gang wars of the 1950s, the flowering of the love generation, and the rise of feminism, espionage and new snobbery.

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen

A re telling of the original popular tales of Rudolph Erich Raspe, first published in England in 1785. The stories vary from a fall through the the centre of the earth, to being carried around the world on the back of a giant eagle and conquering whole armies single handed.

Homebird

Eager to save his parents’ marriage, Nicky Morrison escapes from boarding school and heads for London, but the harsh realities of life on the run could change his plans.

The Fame Hotel

The murder of the American ghost writer Ollie Sincton seemed at first to be no more than yet another scummy little crime in a long, hot London August. But for Robin Nicholl, his best friend’s literary bequest, a series of highly revealing computer disks, was to become a perilous obsession.

Nasty Neighbours

Timmy and Meg are neighbours. They’re the same age, they go to the same school and they should be friends but they’re not. The problem is that their families can’t stand one another. However, as each tells their tale they find to their amazement that actually they’re not enemies at all.

Revenance

Like any village, Burthorpe has its secrets. A family dynasty rests on the psyche of the owner of Garston Hall, a local burial ground is to be moved to make way for a business park and the village shop conceals a seething fantasy life. Then, Margaret Cowper returns and things are set to change.

The Transfer

Stanley is a football mad 11 year old. His team, City, faces relegation from the Premiership unless a goal scoring miracle occurs in the last two games of the season. In desperation, Stan accesses his mother’s computer program to create Lazlo, a genius striker who can save City.

Kill Your Darlings

In a dishevelled west London flat the body of a young man lies crumpled, the victim of a suicide. In a stylish family home less than a mile away is a writer: stranded in mid life, his one triumph behind him, his family slipping away from him, all he has to hold on to is his self belief that one day the world will recognise his talents. From these two seemingly unrelated elements, Terence Blacker creates a magnificently compulsive novel of ego, envy, self deception and, ultimately, self destruction. Gregory Keays is a man with a wonderful future behind him. A dazzlingly brilliant first work has led to a series of false starts, wrong turnings and critical cold shoulders. Reduced to compiling a book of literary lists and stuck in the mire of his latest fiction, Insignificance, Gregory’s life turns around when he takes under his wing Peter Gibson, a promising student at the night school where he teaches creative writing. When Gibson kills himself following an argument with his mentor, Gregory pays him the highest compliment he appropriates his work and pas*ses it off as his own But when Gregory realises that somebody else may know of the existence of the work, he has to decide just how far he is prepared to go for success. And when he calls in Brian McWilliam, ex villain turned literary star for a spot of freelance work in his old game, it can only lead to one frightening conclusion. A towering literary achievement and a novel of compulsive readability, Kill Your Darlings vividly imagines the terrifying outcome of one man s Faustian pact with the demon of success.

Boy2girl

Is he a girl? Is she a boy?

Matthew’s American cousin, Sam, has come to London to live with the family. Sam is a charismatic, funny kid, but can he be trusted to be a reliable friend? Matthew and his ‘mates’ decide that Sam must undertake a challenge in order to prove himself: he must start off his new year at their school posing as a girl. It turns out that Sam makes a great girl. He fools everyone and has an electrifying effect at Bradbury Hill School. And the longer the prank goes on, the more hilarious and serious the repercussions.

This brilliant novel shines a laser sharp beam into the perilous territory of early teen life, in an unforgettable story of chaos, confusion, and cross dressing.

Parentswap

Danny Bell’s problems can be summed up in three simple words: Mum and Dad. His mother has left home, and his father spends all his time slumped in front of the TV, dreaming of the good old days when he was a nearly famous rock star. So when Danny hears about Parentswap , a secret London agency that helps kids find the parents they deserve, it doesn t take him long to contact it. Thanks to Parentswap , Danny s life is transformed. It s bye bye to his misfit, loser family and hello perfect parents. But why does Danny have a niggling feeling that there is more to Parentswap than meets the eye? Is it his imagination, or are the strange things that happen to him being somehow organized, directed even watched over?

Terence Blacker s funny, clever, fast moving story is set in a world just like our own a world where reality is just another TV concept.

If I Could Work

A child fantasizes in rhyme about the different kinds of work he would do if he weren’t so young.

Houdini, the Disappearing Hamster

Houdini the pet hamster has disappeared into the neighbors’ houses, and he’s very clever at hiding. Follow Houdini through the rooms of all the houses and families on the street, and see if you can find where this cagey fellow has concealed himself. An intricately illustrated picture book that will have children searching the pages and giggling with delight. Terence Blacker and Pippa Unwin previously collaborated on Herbie Hamster, Where Are You?

Herbie Hamster, Where Are You?

Houdini the pet hamster has disappeared into the neighbors’ houses, and he’s very clever at hiding. Follow Houdini through the rooms of all the houses and families on the street, and see if you can find where this cagey fellow has concealed himself. An intricately illustrated picture book that will have children searching the pages and giggling with delight. Terence Blacker and Pippa Unwin previously collaborated on Herbie Hamster, Where Are You??