The Ship of Doom, M.A. Bennett
The Ship of Doom, M.A. Bennett
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The Ship of Doom
Book 1 - A time-travelling adventure set on board the Titanic

Author: M.A. Bennett

Narrator: Philip Bulcock

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2022

Synopsis

'A hugely entertaining mystery' – Fiona Noble, The Bookseller Children's Previews 'One to Watch'

Greenwich, London, 15th February 1894.

Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt's butterfly club sounds deathly boring.

But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, is not at all as Luna expects. The Butterfly Club is a society with an unusual secret . . . they use time travel to plunder the future for wonders.

Together with her friends, Konstantin and Aidan, and a clockwork cuckoo, Luna boards the Time Train. The gang travel to 1912 and find themselves aboard a great ship travelling from Southampton to New York. They locate a man called Guglielmo Marconi and his new invention: the wireless radio. But as the ship heads into icy waters, they discover its name:

The RMS TITANIC

Can Luna and the boys save Marconi and his invention from the doomed ship?

Can they get the radio back home to the Butterfly Club?

And how will their actions change the rest of time?

About M.A. Bennett

M.A. Bennett was born in the north of England to an English mother and a Venetian father. She loved history so much she studied it at four different universities. She also studied art and worked as an illustrator, an actress and a film reviewer. Now she has her dream job of being a writer and her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. She lives in London - the home of Greenwich Meantime - with one husband, two children and three cats.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tina on August 17, 2023

The butterfly club time travel into the future to bring back to their time, which is late Victorian era. They go to 1912 on the Titanic and try to stop its tragic end. An interesting and mind boggling idea. Could it be possible to change a future event? I will look for others in this series.......more

Goodreads review by Rennai on September 28, 2022

I really enjoyed this historical time-travel adventure. Three intrepid children, Luna, Aidan and Konstantin are recruited by the Butterfly society to travel by time-train forward to 1912 to "steal" Marconi's wireless to bring back to their own time (to help with the advancement of science). Things g......more

Goodreads review by Sophie_Faith on September 18, 2022

2.5 star rounded up to 3. The Ship of Doom is a time-travel adventure where 3 children find themselves on board the Titanic. They have been sent there by their family to bring back an invention - the wireless radio. It was an action-packed middle grade but for me there were a few plot holes, a bit fac......more

Goodreads review by Steph on April 21, 2022

I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this! I wasn’t expecting to love this as much as I did, but my gosh, what a story. This is full of time travel, intrigue, bad guys, good guys and a bunch of kids whose stories I want more of! Loved reading about the Titanic! The ending SHOOK me. I can not wait for the next one!......more

Goodreads review by The Library on October 07, 2023

This book was on the shortlist for my school’s annual competition – The Bolton Children’s Fiction Award. As I love historical fiction and have read some other books on the Titanic, picking up this book was an easy choice for me. This is the first in the four book ‘Butterfly Club’ historical time-tra......more

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