The Long-Lost Secret Diary of the World's Worst Samurai

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Age range 8+ Suki is a 14-year-old girl in 16th century Japan who wants to become a samurai warrior like her father and brother. Despite her disastrous training, when a party of bandits threaten her village whilst the men are away at war, Suki has to defeat them. Will she prove herself a legendary samurai, or will it all end in disaster?

Tim Collins' fiction for children has been translated into forty languages and won awards such as the Manchester Fiction City and The Kalbacher Klapperschlange. The Long-Lost Secret Diary of the World's Worst Astronaut was chosen for the 2019 Summer Reading Challenge. Isobel Lundie is an illustrator and designer. She graduated from Kingston university with a first class honours in illustration and animation. Since graduating, Isobel has specialised in children's publishing and has made books for The Salariya Book Company, Usborne, Random House, DK and The Good Book Company. She uses a wide variety of materials such as collage papers, pencil, ink and digital media. She likes creating detailed work with wacky characters that makes children laugh.