The Uninvited

Ross MacKenzie

Sep 2025 · Bolinda · Narrated by James Rottger

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10 hr 18 min

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When the Faerae folk flee their world and come to ours, running from the nightmare of war, nobody in the everyday knows what to do. So they are locked away. Thirteen-year-old Samm Wolfback lives in Glass Forest, a sprawling Faerae refugee camp in England. Life in Glass Forest is hard, poisoned by disease and crime and poverty. But Samm has a unique gift that lines his pockets – he can find lost things. When Samm is thrust into the centre of a plot to escape Glass Forest and return home, he must use his gifts to unearth two treasures lost in the everyday: a relic that will end the war back in Faerae; and the only person with the power to reopen the door between worlds – the Locksmith. The task will take Samm to dark places filled with danger, from a grimly enchanted circus of nightmares to a museum housing a murderous exhibit, and he will have to use all of his skills to stay alive. Meanwhile, in the human world, a kidnapped boy with a dark secret begins to realise that he might hold the key to the Faerae folks' fate. Before all is said and done, destiny's web will entangle him with Samm and send them spinning towards a showdown with the great evil that lurks in the world beyond the door.

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About the author

Ross MacKenzie is an award-winning Scottish children's author whose book The Nowhere Emporium (2018) was the winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2016 and the Blue Peter Book Award 2016. To date there are two more books in the series, The Elsewhere Emporium and The Otherwhere Emporium. He has also written books in a new series including Evernight and Feast of the Evernight. His latest book is The Uninvited (2025). MacKenzie lives near Glasgow with his wife, daughters and their cocker spaniel, though he spends much of his spare time in another world.

James Rottger is a Scottish actor and voice artist who trained at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh. James can be heard on BBC Sounds Radio 4’s The Raiders. Notable film and TV roles include Much Ado About Christmas, The Lost King, Our Ladies and Irish Wish. He has narrated titles such as Alexander McCall Smith's The Winds from Further West and the Hidden Gift series by Ian Somers.

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