Bøker av Jill Marshall

Legendary catgirl and head of the Runes, Matilda Peppercorn, is called to some SWAGGey action when a swarm of strange visitors arrive at the School of I.C.E. with a message. Someone, somewhere, is waking up. But who? Scotland's mysterious fairy folk and famous monsters? The race known only as 'the Others' who terrify all of witchkind? Or something much, much worse? Yes, yes and ... yes! Terrible trials are testing the world. It's going to take a team effort to fight off what's awoken, if Tilly's old friends and her her team of SWAGG can stop fighting with each other! But Tilly's been woken up too. She's always been a legend. Now, with SWAGG, she's about to discovere her ultimate destiny ...

The darkness is spreading. Gideon Flynn, SWAGG's beloved leader, is rapidly becoming more shadow than light. And it's not just Flynn. Destructive forces are stealing across the planet, causing rifts in families, in continents, in the Earth itself ... As super-scientist Stein races to create a way to bring Gideon back from the Shadows, with the help of his old friend Frank and his new SWAGG team, they realise that Flynn is always secretive for a reason. He knows something. He knows what's coming. And he knows how to stop it. So if SWAGG can't bring him back before he disappears forever into the blackness, it's going to spell disaster - and not just for Gideon and SWAGG, but for everyone on Earth.

Evil Inspector-General Hopkins has a list. He's checking it twice. And he's definitely not Santa ... Ever since Hallowe'en, Matilda Peppercorn has felt like she's being watched. Weirdy women keep popping up in all sorts of strange places. On the special mosaic in her garden. Up a tree at the tumbledown building where she and BFF Mattan hang out. Even at the competition for her beloved kickboxing. And they're not just watching. They're testing her, for a job she's even never heard of and that involves furballs and feline fighting. Crazy, yes? Surely that's impossible. It's time for the Flying Matildas, Tilly and Mattan, to do some police detectiving of their own. And if anyone's up to the task, it's Matilda Peppercorn: magical mayhem, loyalest bestie ever and kick-boxing power-packer .... all in one legendary teen. From Jill Marshall, author of the best-selling series about Jane Blonde, Sensational Spylet. Follow Tilly and gang to uncover the mystery of what it takes to be a living legend!

'Until now, you have been just plain old Janey Brown. But you are going to grow and grow. You will be what your parents have not allowed you to be. It's in your past. And it's in your future. There's a whole new part of you just waiting to you to burst out. You are Jane Blonde - Sensational Spylet. Welcome to our world.' Janey Brown has been close to invisible and feeling pretty blue at her new school, until her mysterious godmother introduces her to a new life - as sensational spylet, Jane Blonde. With gadgets, missions and enemies galore, it's hard to figure out who's friend or foe. But Janey's a bit of a natural. It's in the blood. And it's playground zero to superspy hero for the new spy in town. Meet Blonde. Jane Blonde. Originally published by Macmillan, the Jane Blonde series has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in two dozen countries, was a World Book Day book, and has been optioned for film and TV. It is now available for the first time in all sorts of digital versions including e, flip and print books, with fabulous new covers and from its new official home - Jill Marshall Books Ltd. And Blonde is back in new series, S*W*A*G*G. Bigger. Badder. Blonder.

Analyzes and critiques 'second wave' feminists who discuss how philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes and Kant regard human beings and their capacities. The author suggests adopting an inclusive universal concept of the human being, Hegelian ideas of the formation of the free human being in society, and care ethics.