Paula reads to our eight year-old twin boys for about 45 minutes every night. For the last several months this has involved reading the Harry Potter books, which has become a family ritual that the boys have grown to love and look forward to. To the extent that they throw a major wobbly if they even suspect that she is planning to give it a miss for a night.

So now we are about a quarter of the way through the last book in the series, and the boys are just starting to panic at the thought of the end of the series approaching.

So where do we go from here?

Does anyone have an idea of what two reasonably intelligent, cricket and chess obsessed eight-year-olds might want to read?

Cheers.