Paula Brackston is the author of the Found Things series, the Shadow Chronicles and the Brothers Grimm series as P.J. Brackston.
Brackston attended Lancaster University where she earned her MA in Creative Writing. She has since went on to become a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Wales, Newport. Paula tried her hand at numerous careers before becoming a writer. She worked as everything from a travel agent to a secretary to an English teach before finding her way to writing. Paula was was selected by the BBC under their New Welsh Writers scheme in 2011.
The Little Shop of Found Things is the first book in the Found Things series. The book starts when Xanthe and her mother Flora leave London behind to take over an antique shop in Marlborough. Xanthe has a special connection with antiques as when she touches them she can sense some of the memories that they hold. There is a silver chatelaine that she is especially interested in. When she examines it she is transported back to the seventeenth century where she needs to save a girl. She’ll get help from Samuel Appleby who is the only one who can help her succeed and the one thing that could keep her from leaving.
Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints is the first book in the Brothers Grimm Mystery series. The story takes place in Bavaria in 1776 when Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger’s Frog Prints go missing. He turns to help from Gretel who is now 35 and a famous investigator. She is still living with her brother Hans, so she is excited to take the case on in Nuremburg. With seemingly no clues to be found, Gretel has to get creative in her search.
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