Mel Foster and the Demon Butler is a 2015 gothic children's novel by Julia Golding.

[1] Mel Foster is an orphan, growing up in Victorian England, when he is sent away from the orphanage to work on a ship called The Albatross.

Mel, left to look after the frozen specimen accidentally revives the giantess back to life.

While Eve and Mel become firm friends in the Arctic, back in England there is definitely something fishy going on in Buckingham Palace.

Mel Foster and the Demon Butler starts off in the Arctic during Queen Victoria's reign.