Radio Boy and the Revenge of Grandad

by Christian O'Connell

  The brilliant team at HarperCollins: Elorine Grant, text designer; Kate Clarke, cover designer; Samantha Stewart, desk editor; Tanya Hougham, the slave-driving audio editor; and the entire Sales, Marketing and PR team for helping me no doubt take home a Pulitzer with this very book.

  To all the Radio Boy fans who have sent emails, posted reviews and helped spread the word: only the smartest kids get this book. The other fools read you-know-who and what’s-his-face. Not you. The future is safe in your gifted hands. Thank you from this slightly older Radio Boy.

  Marks & Spencer’s Madagascan Vanilla Fudge. My treat at the end of each chapter.

  Spike’s your average awkward 11-year-old, funny and cheeky and with a mum to reckon with. When he becomes the first presenter ever to be sacked from hospital radio, he decides to carry on from a makeshift studio in the garden shed, with the help of his best friends Artie and Holly, disguising his voice and going by the moniker Radio Boy.

  Can Spike remain anonymous? Will he get to marry the girl of his dreams, Katherine Hamilton? Will he become famous and popular? The answer to most of these questions is no …

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