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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2013
Reissued in this edition in 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780007489237
Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780007489244
Version: 2019-04-15
This book is dedicated to you.
Whether you are a Minion or a Skuttlebug or just, you know, a normal person, it’s because of you that I get to do what I love and laughingly call it work.
I know some of you by name and some of you by sight (and some of you by smell, but let’s not get into that) but there are still countless others I have never met, and to all of you I say thank you for your support, your passion, and your lunacy.
Now please, for the love of whatever god you pray to, leave me alone.
Contents
Chapter 4: The Secret Origin Of …
Chapter 8: Searching the Aisles
Chapter 9: Roarhaven’s Number One Public House
Chapter 10: The Thirteenth Floor
Chapter 16: The Supreme Council
Chapter 22: Staying Out of Trouble