Genie in Training

by Ciaran Murtagh

Published 16 April 2012

When Jamie's gran gives him a battered old teapot he reckons she's gone doolally! But then he cleans it, and out pops Balthazar Najar, a banished genie!

Balthazar grants three wishes but, for the last one, Jamie accidentally wishes he was a genie . . . He's whisked off to genie school where angry headmasters, deadly magic carpets and exploding lamps are the least of his worries!

Illustrated throughout with fun pictures by Adria Meserve.


Genie in a Trap

by Ciaran Murtagh

Published 22 March 2013

When Balthazar and Dylan, Jamie's two best friends, lure him back to Lampville with the promise of a fantastic adventure, Jamie finds himself stuck in a trap so fiendishly difficult he's not sure he'll ever get out!

Why have his friends tricked him? Who is the mysterious cloaked genie who seems to have them under his spell, and what terrible plan does he have for Jamie and the Genie Academy?

In this hilarious adventure Jamie will have to escape poison spikes, fire-breathing frogs and double crossing friends to make sure the genie world is not destroyed for ever.

Sometimes magic just isn't enough . . .


Genie in Trouble

by Ciaran Murtagh

Published 23 October 2012

Jamie is in a lesson at school when he has a surprise visit from Balthazar, his genie friend. It turns out there are huge problems at the Genie Academy and the headmaster is in trouble. He is desperate for Jamie to come back to the genie kingdom to help them out.

Jamie faces evil wishes, undercover missions and death-defying magic carpet races in his most dangerous challenge yet! Still, it's got to beat a spelling test . . .