Small Vampires

Small Vampires #1-3

by Robin Bennett

All three award-winning Small Vampires books (Picus the Thief, Mousch the Crooked, Raptor the Avenger) in one beautifully bound volume.

1500 years after the first Arthurian story comes a re-telling... with Vampires.

Sixteen years ago, a letter from a stranger led translator Robin Bennett on a journey from Henley-on-Thames to the north of England. At the end of this journey, he found himself the unexpected beneficiary of three tattered and disreputable looking volumes of unknown provenance and unreadable lexis.

Ten years later, the translation of the first volume, Picus the Thief, was published, winning Indie Book of the Year, Writers' News, in 2012. This was followed by two more volumes: Mousch the Crooked and Raptor the Avenger, and now the trilogy is complete.

Bennett gave his 'translations' the collective name Small Vampires - together they relate the explosive and moving story of an intelligent species that has lived amongst us, largely in secret, for thousands of years.

A Young Adult Crossover title.

Hardcover

Published May 1, 2019

About the author

Robin Bennett is an author and entrepreneur who has written over twenty-five books for children. He has also written books on the swashbuckling world of business: How to Make a Good Living Running Your Own Business, Kicking the Property Ladder and Start up Smart, all published by Harriman House.

In 2024 Cracking was shortlisted for a Week Junior Book Award and Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year for Children. His YA novel 'XII' was shortlised for a British Book Award in 2023 and his very popular Monster Max Series is a Book Trust pick and won Coventry Inspiration Book Awards in 2022. Picus the Thief, won the Writer's News Indie Published Book of the Year Award in 2012.

When Robin grew up he thought he wanted to be a cavalry officer until everyone else realised that putting him in charge of a tank was a very bad idea. He then became an assistant gravedigger in London. After that he had a career frantically starting businesses (everything from dog-sitting to cigars, tuition to translation)... until finally settling down to write improbable stories to keep his children from killing each other on long car journeys.