Julius and the Watchmaker

✍ Scribed by Hehir, Tim

• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781922079732

✦ Synopsis

A time-travel adventure full of strange creatures and time criminals and a quest to save London from imminent peril.

Julius Higgins runs errands delivering books to customers of his grandfather's bookshop - when he's not running from Crimper McCready and his gang of bullies.

Then a mysterious clock collector turns up looking for the diary of watchmaker John Harrison.

Before he knows what he's doing Julius has tricked his grandfather, run away from home and done a deal with the strange man Springheel.

And that's all before he finds out that the watchmaker's diary is really an instruction manual for making a time-travel device. Now that Springheel has his hands on it, catastrophe almost certainly awaits.

Julius and the Watchmaker is a fabulous time-travel adventure set in Victorian London with an array of colourful Dickensian characters, gyrofliers, carts of offal, sharp-toothed creatures called Grackacks, and the most intricate...