History needs a hero. It’s getting Nigel Pickle.
Nigel Pickle needs somewhere to hide. Unfortunately, he picks a time machine.
With school bully Gavin ‘The Grunter’ Grimes on his trail, ten-year-old Nigel takes refuge in Cubicle Three. It seems like a good plan. Gavin can’t get him behind a locked door.
Then the toilet sends him hurtling through time.
Soon, Nigel is racing through history with Dot, a girl who seems far too comfortable with danger. Ancient Egypt has toilet-paper mummies. The future has problems considerably worse than homework. And somewhere in the Flushlines, the waterways connecting past and future, Sludge is plotting to clog up time itself.
Stopping him means outwitting a clockwork spider and surviving places Nigel would rather have read about. Preferably at home. With a biscuit.
But Nigel notices things other people miss. With history coming apart around him, he’ll have to trust his own ideas.
Can a boy who hides from the school bully stop Sludge before everything goes down the pan?
An illustrated time-travel adventure for readers aged 7 to 11 who love funny books and close escapes.
