H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute of Villainous Education) is a top-secret school of applied villainy where children with a precocious gift for wrongdoing are sent to develop their talents into criminal mastermind. After all, ‘villains have the best lines and wear the best costumes’. One small catch is that the children cannot leave until training is complete, six years later. With villainy comes a certain freedom of thought, and every year one student in particular will show exceptional talent – after all, it takes the best to produce the worst. Follow their adventures in this wickedly good series of books.

'A comedy thriller, full of baddies, action and lashings of humour' Sunday Express

'An exhuberant Dahl-esque escapade' Financial Times

'Exciting, clever and all in all brilliant' Sunday Telegraph