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By (author) Bennett, M.A.; Read by Bulcock, Philip

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London, 1894. Luna aunt”s butterfly club is actually a secret society whose members use time travel to plunder the future for wonders. Luna and her friends travel to 1912 and find themselves aboard a great ship travelling from Southampton to New York… the RMS Titanic.

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”A hugely entertaining mystery” – Fiona Noble, The Bookseller Children”s Previews ”One to Watch”

Greenwich, London, 15th February 1894.

Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt”s butterfly club sounds deathly boring.

But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, is not at all as Luna expects. The Butterfly Club is a society with an unusual secret . . . they use time travel to plunder the future for wonders.

Together with her friends, Konstantin and Aidan, and a clockwork cuckoo, Luna boards the Time Train. The gang travel to 1912 and find themselves aboard a great ship travelling from Southampton to New York. They locate a man called Guglielmo Marconi and his new invention: the wireless radio. But as the ship heads into icy waters, they discover its name:

The RMS TITANIC

Can Luna and the boys save Marconi and his invention from the doomed ship?

Can they get the radio back home to the Butterfly Club?

And how will their actions change the rest of time?

Review quote:
”A hugely entertaining mystery”

Biographical note:

M.A. Bennett was born in the north of England to an English mother and a Venetian father. She loved history so much she studied it at four different universities. She also studied art and worked as an illustrator, an actress and a film reviewer. Now she has her dream job of being a writer and her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. She lives in London – the home of Greenwich Meantime – with one husband, two children and three cats.

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First in a four-book middle-grade series by the author of the popular YA series, STAGS.

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Rights to STAGS have been sold in 13 territories.

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M.A. Bennett was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize in 2018.

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Cleverly weaves together fact and fiction.

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Settings across the series include: The Titanic (Book One), Egypt”s Valley of the Kings (Book Two), Houdini and the Mona Lisa in Paris (Book Three) and the 1969 Moon Landings (Book Four).