Book 0:  Crabbit House

Maggie and Eleanor Crabtree love to annoy stuffy grownups with their quick wit and reckless behavior. But when the girls get kidnapped and imprisoned in their own family mansion on the rugged west coast of Scotland life becomes a lot less fun. This gang of international art thieves will make their lives miserable until their father, a famous art historian, gives the crooks a priceless collection of goblets, brooches and swords.

Surrounded by evil, mean humans and a slobbering guard dog they have no way to escape… unless a scruffy, rude, bad-tempered rock creature can help them come up with a plan involving secret codes, frozen pizza, a tape recorder, stinking sausage meat, a rusty paint can and a chamber pot full of poop.

Book 1:    Blackhope Scar

When Finnley McDougall’s Great Uncle Hugh gives him a most unusual gift, Finn’s boring sixth-grade life is quickly turned upside down. He’s now the proud owner of a Gome—a scruffy, rude, bad-tempered Scottish rock creature named Wullie, who has an amazing penchant for causing disaster wherever he goes.

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And when they’re catapulted into a wild adventure that will carry them across the globe—from French snobs in fancy hotels to abandoned mines, rusting barges, and flooded quarries deep in the Scottish hills—Finn and his newfound companion begin to unearth a sinister plot that threatens to destroy everything they love... including Edinburgh Castle.

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With the help of his trusty best friend Hadley Kobayashi, Finn must unravel the secrets of the Gomes and learn to navigate a strange magical world of long-forgotten Scottish mythology... to prevent a conspiracy with world-changing consequences.

Book 2:  Twilight Cave

A beloved sculpture is stolen by an acid-spitting rock creature in Barcelona. A smart, brave thirteen year-old girl deals with her father’s ditzy girlfriends in Seattle. A doleful sandstone gome battles wolf hounds and guard geese at Cragganbogle Castle on the Western Isles of Scotland.

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When Finnley and Hadley’s Seventh Grade class is invited to spend a vacation in Spain these unlikely events are drawn together into an adventure filled with more danger, weird food, snooty popular girls, underground cave cities and evil bog witches than they could have hoped for.

Book 3:   Chondrite Vault

Finnley McDougall’s best friend Hadley is dying of gomebane poison. The secret cure was lost five hundred years ago when the Inca Empire collapsed. And unless he can control his emotions Finn will stiffen up and turn to stone.

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Dealing with school bullies and obnoxious popular girls was a lot easier than this. And to make things even worse, Wullie, his scruffy, rude, bad-tempered friend and protector is being hunted by the most evil gomes in Europe.

Book 4:   Shadow Canyon

Public buildings and monuments are collapsing around the world... and no one knows why! A reclusive multinational corporation claims to have found the answer. Finnley McDougall and his best friend Hadley are growing apart from each other as things at school become weirder and weirder. Tessa of the Golden Star remains stuck in the wrong place and time. Wullie-The-Mahaar-Gome, their scruffy, rude, bad-tempered protector seems unable to help.

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Despite the victory in the Battle of Tårsjo Plain life on the planet does not seem safer. Power in the gome world is shifting to a city in Central America ruled by a cruel tyrant who uses slaves to build up his empire and protects his city by a volcano below and a lake up above filled with murderous bull sharks. Can anything restore balance between the worlds of gomes and humans? The answer may lie in an inaccessible canyon on the Navajo Reservation on the Colorado Plateau that is drawing in the attention of the world.

Book 5:   Desolation Moor

The world has been a suspiciously quiet and peaceful place in the three years since the calamity in Shadow Canyon. There have been no more Stone Rot events. Finnley McDougall and Hadley Kobayashi are enjoying a normal senior year in high school. The future looks bright.

But when a young man from New Delhi attends an enigmatic and prestigious summer adventure camp in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, he discovers a terrible secret. The future of humanity is in mortal danger and time is running out.

The only hope for the world is to drag one scruffy rude, bad-tempered little gome away from his solitary retreat to get his advice. Wullie believes that the only way to avert catastrophe will require a journey to a most dangerous period in history to bring something back. The Bog Witch of Calanais has other plans. The fate of the world for both humans and gomes depends on the outcome of that clash of ideas out on a desolate Scottish moor.

Hugh McDougall's Field Guide to the World of Gomes

After spending over seven decades roaming the world with Wullie-The-Mahaar-Gome having adventures, we finally persuaded Hugh McDougall to share notes and sketches from the journals he kept during his travels. We hope that this field guide will help more of you to better understand the remarkable rock creatures that we call gomes and that are living among us. They are secretive and hard to spot but if you know where to look and what to look out for then the world of gomes will open up to you.

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Paperback edition.

Hugh McDougall's Field Guide to the World of Gomes

After spending over seven decades roaming the world with Wullie-The-Mahaar-Gome having adventures, we finally persuaded Hugh McDougall to share notes and sketches from the journals he kept during his travels. We hope that this field guide will help more of you to better understand the remarkable rock creatures that we call gomes and that are living among us. They are secretive and hard to spot but if you know where to look and what to look out for then the world of gomes will open up to you.

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Hardback edition.