The Final Feast: Funny illustrated gothic middle-grade award-winning humour for 8+ readers, new in the series for 2024! (BEAST AND THE BETHANY, Book 5)

The nation’s favourite blended beastly family is BACK for the fifth and FINAL book of the series from multiple award-winning author Jack Meggitt-Phillips 'Reads like a modern classic. Sharp, funny, original – I thought this was brilliant', Sam Copeland, bestselling author of Charlie Changes into a Chicken on The Beast and The Bethany Ebenezer Tweezer has spent the best part of 512 years doing whatever he wanted, but that all changed when he met Bethany – a rude, snotty-nosed prankster. Ebenezer has come to care for this strange, slightly smelly little scowler more than he has cared about anyone or anything before. It’s just as well, because when this story begins, Bethany needs a friend. She has just discovered that her parents Augustus and Gemima were dreadful criminals before they died in an only slightly more dreadful fire. Except – it seems her father did NOT die at all. Augustus returns to Bethany’s life, begging for Bethany’s help to clear his name and show him how to live a life that is free from crime. As the action barrels towards celebrations for Ebenezer’s 513th birthday, Ebenezer, Miss Muddle and Geoffrey have to figure out Augustus’ true motives for coming back into Bethany’s life. Can they show Bethany the true meaning of family, before it’s too late? In The Final Feast, a top prize-winning children's book, Jack Meggitt-Phillips explores the themes of adoption, foster homes, and juvenile orphans through a humorous fantasy fiction. The story revolves around Bethany, a young girl discovering the truth about her family's past amidst a world filled with magic and monsters. For fans of M.G. Leonard (Twitch), Amy Sparkes (Do Not Enter The Monster Zoo), Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Katherine Rundell (Rooftoppers), and Thomas Taylor (Shadowghast). HarperCollins 2024