Simon Mason

Simon Mason was born in Sheffield in 1962. He was educated at local schools and studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He currently works as Senior Acquisitions Editor at ABC-CLIO Inc and lives in Oxford with his wife and two children. He is the author of three novels of black comedy for adults, THE GREAT ENGLISH NUDE, which won a Betty Trask Award in 1990, DEATH OF A FANTASIST and LIVES OF THE DOG-STRANGLERS. THE QUIGLEYS, his first book for children, was published in 2002. Hilarious and heart-warming, it marks the start of a series featuring the eccentric Quigley family and was Highly Commended in the Branford Boase Award 2003.

In an ordinary city, in an ordinary street, in an ordinary house, lives an ordinary family called….The Quigleys.

In this, the fourth collection of stories about this ordinary family:

Will makes a big effort to be nice to horrible Robinson Potts.

Mum looks forward to the big funfair coming to town.

Lucy’s birthday is coming up and she’s having a big party.

And Dad… Dad’s having big problems with his big toe.

The Quigleys spin out of control in five laugh-out-loud stories (including an adventure-filled story from Fatbrain the cat).