Benji and the Gunpowder Plot

By Kate Cunningham

This Middle Grade book takes young Benji from at night celebrating Bonfire Night to the murk, grime and danger of London in 1605.

Benji finds himself as an apprentice to a swordmaker and through this comes into contact with the actors of the Globe Theatres (including the Shakespeare brothers), the royal court and some shady characters who seem to be planning some terrible deed.

Benji has to work out how to stop the plotters and get safely home, and finds out a lot about his family along the way too.