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  • Published: 7 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9781847154330
  • Imprint: Fiction Studio
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $17.99

Life Stinks!



Cedric Thatchbottom is a knight in training, serving Sir Percy the Proud. When the famous knight refuses to take part in a duel with his mortal enemy, Roland the Rotten, Cedric finds himself stepping up to the challenge…

Cedric Thatchbottom can’t wait to train as a squire, serving Sir Percy the Proud – a knight famed throughout the land for his glorious deeds. But this famous knight isn’t all he appears to be, and Cedric soon finds himself being run ragged around Castle Bombast by his new master.

In the first book in the Knightmare series, Roland the Rotten has challenged Percy the Proud to a duel. But the famous knight refuses to take part because he’s lost his lucky underpants. It turns out that Percy is lying to avoid the fight. With his new master’s reputation at stake, Cedric finds himself stepping up to the challenge…

A hilarious new series following the misadventures of a trainee knight. Packed with comical characters, battles, puns and poo, these books are irresistible to boys and girls aged six to eight years.

  • Published: 7 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9781847154330
  • Imprint: Fiction Studio
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $17.99

About the authors

Peter Bently

Peter Bently grew up in an army family and went to ten different schools. He studied languages at Oxford and worked as a journalist and non-fiction book editor before becoming a children's author when his own two children were very small. He is the author of more than sixty books, including Cats Ahoy!, illustrated by Jim Field, which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and King Jack and the Dragon, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, which was an American Library Association Notable Book of the year.

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