Dr Illuminatus
Martin Booth Audio Book

When Pip and Tim move into an old manor house, they hear strange tapping noises at night that seem to be coming from the behind the wall. They tap back, a hidden panel opens – and out comes Sebastian, a boy dressed in bizarre, old-fashioned clothes and claiming to come from the fifteenth century! He says he is pursuing his father’s enemy, the wicked alchemist Pierre de Loudéac, who accused his father of witchcraft and condemned him to burn at the stake. De Loudéac, like Sebastian, has the power to stay in suspended animation throughout the centuries: but now he is alive and trying to make a 'homunculus' (an artificial human being) who will help him carry out his foul plans. Soon Pip and Tim are caught in a web of magic and cunning, and their only hope is to join Sebastian in his desperate battle against unimaginable evil...