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What happens when a million volts of electricity accidentally hits a top secret miniaturising machine? Captain Horatio Nelson Cockle and his crew find out - when a bolt of lightning hits the flying submarine Cormorant and sends it spinning into a nightmare lake. Is everything as it seems? Or has the Cormorant plunged into a strange new world of monster insects, giant swans and ravenous fish the size of super-tankers? Join the Captain, his wife Dr Catherine Cockle, and their grandchildren Jenny and William on a perilous race against the clock, as they battle giant rats, hungry dogs and treacherous industrial spies in their escape to normality, from the monstrous world of . . . the pond! The third book in this exciting underwater series for girls and boys aged 8-12. Available from Poolbeg Press Ltd. (see below) Price IR£3.99. 


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