The first book in the bestselling BATTLE OF THE BEETLES series!

The first book in the bestselling BATTLE OF THE BEETLES series!

'Truly

great storytelling.' MICHAEL MORPURGO

Darkus

can't believe his eyes when a huge insect drops out of

the trouser leg of his horrible new neighbour. It's a giant beetle

- and it seems to want to communicate. But how can a boy be friends

with a beetle? And what does a beetle have to do with the disappearance

of his dad and the arrival of Lucretia Cutter, with her

taste for creepy jewellery?