The London Eye Mystery - Couverture souple

Monday 24 May, 11.32 a.m.
Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye.
The pod rises from the ground.

Monday 24 May, 12.02 p.m.
The pod lands and the doors open. People exit - but where is Salim?

Has he spontaneously combusted? [Ted's theory.]
Has he been kidnapped? [Aunt Gloria's theory.]
Is he even still alive? [The family's unspoken fear.]

Even the police are baffled. Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners. They follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin, while time ticks dangerously by . . .

'Immediately appealing' Guardian

Winner of the NASEN Children's Book Award, the CBI Bisto Book of the Year Award and shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award

Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.

Siobhan's first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize.

Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children's Books Ireland Bisto Awards.

Siobhan's third novel, Bog Child, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008.

The award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Her novella, The Ransom of Dond, was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy.