Cogheart Adventures Series (Vol 1-4) 4 Books Collection Set by Peter Bunzl

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A: Having decided to write about automatons I had to find a world they would fit in. I knew I wanted to write a big action adventure story and I decided I could bring these together more easily in a 'Steampunk' world than a more factual historical fiction.

I would probably take it on a voyage across the Atlantic. On one of the routes that real historical airships used to take: from Europe to America. Q: There is also a lot of exploration around ideas of identity, especially among the Victorian orphans in this book, and Lily's investigations about her mother's past. Why does this theme play such a big part in this story?

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Night Mayor Franklefink has vanished from the Transylvanian Express - and it's up to you to solve the case! Part of the Solve Your Own Mystery seri... So my advice is, never throw anything away. (In terms of writing I mean. Obviously in real life throw some things away - you don't want to be drowning in stuff!) A: My favourite place to write is at my desk in my office at home. And my favourite time to write is whenever the words are flowing freely - which is about once in a blue moon - and a bit like a waking dream. When the words are not flowing writing can be a nightmare.

A: Mrs Rust, the mechanical cook and housekeeper, is my favourite mechanical in the story. I love writing her little sayings like: 'cogs and chronometers!' and I think she would be great to have at home to look after you and to cook tea and give good advice. Mrs Rust, the housekeeper, is my other favourite mechanical. I'd love for her to run my house - and I wouldn't have to pay her...! Q: What would be your favourite day off spent in (contemporary) London? Where would you go, what would you see? A: I'm not a natural engineer but I did need to know how airships operated for the story so I did some research into how they were engineered. I discovered that there are places in America today where they are trying to build modern versions of the old airships for military contracts. A: We went to France to visit Les Machines de L'ile in Nantes, France, to see some modern automatons; you might remember the Great Elephant automaton that they brought to London a few years ago? You can see that moving about in the park, it is enormous, but they also have mechanical insects and a tree you can climb inside.

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A: I love revisiting the world, yes, because it means I can find out more about it and the characters. As long as there are new places to take them and new mysteries to solve it will always be interesting.

So I envisaged a Downton Abbey-style setting for Cogheart, where you have rich people who can have mechanicals as servants or, in Lily's home, where the mechanicals are friends. Q: During this adventure we meet a child who is a 'hybrid' and who can fly. If you could be part mechanical, what part(s) of you would you choose to be mechanical, or would you want to have built to give you special skills? Bunzl’s numerous influences include: British authors Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, and Sir Philip Pullman; the comic works of Quentin Blake and Carl Barks; and French authors Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Bunzl, whose literary agent is Jo Williamson, specializes with the steampunk and juvenile literature niches. Author Luke Palmer introduces his new book, Play (Firefly Press) about four boys growing up together, the challenges, the friendships, and what hap... It is originally dated September 1, 2016, and set in the 1896 London. Named after a character’s cog implant, Cogheart’s protagonists are: a guardian foxy automaton called Malkin; a steampunk inventor’s daughter called Lily, aged eleven; and a boyish go-between named Robert whose mother’s whereabouts are unknown.COGHEART is a full-throttle adventure story by PETER BUNZL, set in a deftly-realised Victorian world of 'mechanical' servants and pets, where steam-powered flying machines fill the skies. A: There is an theme park in France called Les Machines De L'Ile where they have all kinds of mechanical animals to ride on. I went there when I was researching the books. I think everyone needs to question how we treat others. To be aware of how people discriminates against those who are perceived as 'different' or a 'minority'. The truth is, fundamentally, we are the same and the 'us vs them' rhetoric is only about dividing everyone and creating discord. A: Definitely the fox, Malkin. At the time I was writing Cogheart we had a fox living in our garden and I wrote the first scene of the story with him in mind. I had originally planned for it to be a mechanical man being chased through the woods but I thought it was more likely that an animal was being chased. If it was an animal being chased, it was probably going to be a fox. A: Probably that specific ability: to be able to fly. I think it's something everyone dreams of as a kid. It's why superheroes are so popular. So I would be like Angelique in the story and have mechanical wings, or else I'd be like Deedee and have superhuman legs that would help me balance and wire-walk up in the giddy heights of the circus tent.