David Wolstencroft Books

What could you do with an extra hour a day? Ailsa Craig, late to absolutely everything since the day she was born (two weeks late, at midnight), discovers the Magic Hour in the wake of her parents’ split and her house blowing up. Thankfully, she was late for that too.

Chased through a portal into an alternate, magical Edinburgh, Ailsa rapidly finds herself spinning her life around. With the extra time, her grades improve, enemies become (almost) friends, and it’s all just so intriguing and exciting that Ailsa doesn’t realise, at first, that anything too good to be true comes with a cost. And the costs are mounting up in a frightening way.

The Magic Hour is a fast-paced adventure packed with mythology and guided by the scientific method which will appeal to curious children in upper KS2 and Y7. Fans of The Train To Impossible Places, The Nowhere Emporium and Wonderscape will find much to enjoy here in a debut novel where the brakes are most definitely off…