Simon Cheshire

In 2020, he left the children's market and now writes speculative fiction under the pen name Richard Gadz, including the highly-acclaimed novels The Burn Street Haunting and The Eater Of Flies.

[3] The Jeremy Brown series focus on the homonymous character, a schoolboy who is secretly an MI7 agent, and his fierce sidekick, Patsy Spudd.

[4] Saxby Smart is a schoolkid private detective who works out of his garden shed solving mysteries brought to him by the children of the neighbourhood.

As with the Encyclopedia Brown series, the books are divided into a number of cases and the reader is encouraged to solve the mysteries alongside the detective.

[5][6] The SWARM are intelligent robotic bugs who work with their human teammates to gather information and avert potential disasters.