A Stitch in Time — Jamie Rix

From the creator of Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids and The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury comes this wacky comic novel about Time and Space. Time is running out for Augustus Stitch. Born on the 29th February, his birthday falls once every four years. While his friends live to be eighty, Augustus will die at the tender age of twenty. Desperate to deny death, Augustus decides to make himself immortal. Old Father Time warns him not to meddle â€" time waits for no man, not even Augustus Stitch. Or does it? Will Augustus ignore this crazy old man who lives in a cuckoo clock in the sky? Will he really be the first boy in the world to live forever?