Cymbeline Igloo

Cymbeline Igloo is Adam Baron's acclaimed set of linked middle-grade novels narrated by one of the funniest, most endearing voices in children's fiction - a chatty, football-mad South London boy forever getting the wrong end of the stick. Each book pairs a laugh-out-loud mystery with a genuinely moving story: a mother's mental illness, a grandmother's wartime escape from Vietnam, a blended family finding its feet, kindness across a lockdown. Baron's gift is making readers laugh out loud even as the tears well up, tackling grief, loss and displacement with a lightness that never trivialises them. Warm, wise and deeply humane, the collection is a modern staple of empathetic middle-grade realism, perfect for confident readers ready for stories with real emotional weight.

Adam Baron's acclaimed, laugh-out-loud yet deeply moving novels about football-mad Cymbeline Igloo, tackling grief, family and displacement with a lightness that makes readers laugh and cry at once.

Primary themes

• Empathy
• Family
• Family change
• Friendship
• Grief

Tone palette

• Funny
• Warm
• Heartwarming
• Bittersweet