Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests

<p><b>Sam Copeland</b> is an author which has come as something of a surprise to him. He is from Manchester and now lives in London with two smelly cats three smelly children and one relatively clean-smelling wife.<br><br>He is the author of the bestselling <i>Charlie Changes Into a Chicken</i> series (the first book of which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize) <i>Uma and the Answer to Absolutely Everything </i>and<i> Greta and the Ghost Hunters</i>. With Jenny Pearson he has also written <i>Tuchus & Topps Investigate: The Underpants of Chaos</i> and <i>Tuchus & Topps Investigate: The Attack of the Robot Librarians</i>.<br><br>Despite legal threats he refuses to stop writing.</p> <p><b>The hilarous new fantasy adventure from the author of <i>Charlie Changes Into a Chicken.</i></b><br><br><b>Alex</b> is a normal everyday kid living in a normal everyday city. <b>Axel</b> is a monster-slaying hero living in a world of magic. Unfortunately they look <i>exactly</i> the same. So when the two boys mysteriously swap places each of them ends up being mistaken for the other. <br><br>With zero knowledge of dragon hunting and a very real aversion to danger Alex is thrust into an epic quest to defeat the evil Felonius Gloam who has stolen the Book of Lifetales and is using it to unravel the very fabric of the world of Aërth.<br><br>Axel's chances aren't much better. Faced with double maths a grandma who's six months behind on the rent and a crucial chess tournament he's expected to win his 'decapitate first ask questions later' strategy isn't yielding the best results.<br><br>Can the two boys complete their Impossible Quests™ and find their way back to their own lives - or will they each discover they don't have a life to come back to . . . ?</p>