“Isambard and the Cato Street Conspiracy” is a novel about the Young Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the adventures he has when his life is saved by a mysterious stranger. Here’s the “blurb” from the back of the book:

Science or Magic? He's going to need both

London, 1820: Isambard is just like any other 16-year-old engineering genius until he stumbles across a radical plot to kill the Prime Minister. Things get really complicated when he discovers that the conspiracy is being led by a French revolutionary supposedly executed 25 years earlier.

With the help of the eccentric Candlewick sisters, whose magical shop has a habit of losing itself in the labyrinthine streets of Georgian London, Isambard defies his father and joins forces with the Bow Street Runners. But none of them have any idea about the ancient magic they are taking on.

Will a home-made messaging machine, a pair of telepathic stones and a talking gas be enough to help Isambard thwart the dark magic of the Conspiracy?

If you like magic, contraptions and adventure then you’ll love “Isambard and the Cato Street Conspiracy”.

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This book is aimed at anyone who loves action, adventure, intrigue, history and contraptions.

It’s quite “densely plotted” so it’s aimed at strong readers aged 9 to 99.

If you don’t like the sound of it for yourself how about giving it as a gift? It's been highly rated by fans of the genre, so should be a hit - let me know if it isn't and I'll send you something else instead!

IKB was awesome - he was the Elon Musk of the Victorian age. He built tunnels and trains and bridges and probably would have built broom-brooms (sorry, cars) if they had been invented. But don’t take my word for it - he was also voted the second Greatest Briton of all time (after Winston Churchill!) in a BBC poll a few years back.

He was born at an exciting time where even the word "science" had only just been invented - new chemistry, physics and biology was being observed and documented at a great pace. Isambard grew up in a world where the toybox of things to play with was expanding daily.

We don’t know much about his teenage years, but we know London was alive with scientific invention and political re-invention. What better character, place and time to set an action-adventure novel?

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