Friday Barnes 12: Collision Course: The bestselling detective series

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Friday Barnes is on a collision course with justice. Friday's Mum, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, has been accused of espionage. The police think she's been selling secrets about the Cern Hadron Super Collider - the biggest and most expensive physics experiment in the world. But Friday knows her mother is capable of such a thing - this is a woman who can't even operate a dishwasher. So she rushes to Switzerland to clear her Mum's name (which is a challenge because the Paris Police are trying to arrest her). When Friday arrives at Cern she finds an institution in chaos - pranks are getting out of hand, office politics is turning into industrial sabotage and most baffling of all - her sister has fallen in love with an engineer! Friday needs to get to the bottom of these mysteries before one or all of her family ends up in prison.

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R.A. Spratt was born in the UK and lived in Dursley, Gloucestershire - a town immortalised by Harry Potter's deeply unpleasant relatives - until she was two years old. Then, like many ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to Australia. The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was fertiliser to the growth of R.A.'s imagination. The only thing for a kid to do was get on a bicycle and go to the library, so R.A. Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein and Judy Blume, and audiotapes of Shakespeare productions and Sherlock Holmes dramatisations. And so, her young mind was formed, and set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is today. Now based in Bowral NSW, she's the bestselling writer of dozens of absurd and witty books including Friday Barnes, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, The Peski Kids and the Shockingly and Astonishingly Good Stories collections. Her podcast, Bedtime Stories with R. A. Spratt, has had over 2 million downloads and connects R. A. with story-lovers across the globe. For more information, visit raspratt.com