Our next
series recommendations veers onto a magical theme. If you love Harry Potter,
you will love this series by Michael Scott. Nicholas Flamel is mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
as the man who made the stone that Voldemort is so desperate to get hold of.
This series concentrates on that man and the legend that accompanies him.
Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on 28 September 1330 and nearly seven hundred years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest alchemist of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life although records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty and Nicholas Flamel lives! The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects - the Book of Abraham the Mage. This is the most powerful book that has ever existed and in the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. Dr. John Dee plans to do exactly that when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late and if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman (our teenage heroes) are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it. Sometimes legends are true and Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.
