Parents and children will love the hilarious and often disastrous escapades of Sir Gadabout and yet somehow Sir Gad manages to save the day along with his loyal side kick Herbert and Merlin’s cat.
It’s laugh out loud funny for adult and child alike with some terrific jokes.
Lovers of Roald Dahl will delight in Sir Gadabout’s adventures.
Sir Gadabout is a walking disaster. Voted the "knight most likely to chop his own foot off in a fight", he shivers in his rusty armour when he has to face the brave Sir Lancelot in a joust.
Sir Gads travels with his loyal squire Herbert to the wizard Merlin's cottage to get his ear stuck back in place after the joust, and survives an attack by Merlin's crazed guard turtle. Then, when Queen Guinevere is kidnapped, Sir Gads sets out to save the day!
Join the loveable Sir Gadabout, loyal Herbert and Merlin's sarcastic cat, Sidney Smith, on a chaotic quest that will make every reader - child or adult - laugh out loud.
Martyn Beardsley has lived in Nottingham all his life. A civil servant for many years, he is now concentrating on his writing career. As well as being a children's author, one of his great passions is history. In 2002 he published a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer. A committed Buddhist, he is interested in reading, sport, keep-fit and yoga. Martyn Beardsley is married with one daughter and a mad dog.
MARTYN BEARDSLEY Q&A
What would you rather be – a smuggler or a Revenue man? A Revenue man – most smugglers were very poor, and anyway I’d like to dress up in the uniform!
What’s the most dangerous trip you’ve ever been on? On the A1 to Cambridge stuck in a traffic jam and needing to go for a wee. I almost didn’t make it!
What would you most like to find hidden in an old rusty box? A
letter from the past like the one in the story. I’ve traced my own
family tree and I love finding out more about people long ago.
What goods would you like to smuggle, and why? Tea – it was one of the main smuggled items. I drink gallons a day and can’t write stories without it!
Where would you hide your good from the Revenue men? I think I’d build a fake toilet with horrible smells coming from it – they’d never look in there.
