Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire!

Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire will whisk you away on a fabulous adventure, full of daring action and delicious cakes!

Baker by day, spy by night – Alice Éclair leads an exciting double life!

“Sarah Todd Taylor’s books have all the right ingredients for adventure.”

Daisy Fox, Bristol Post (syndicated regionally)

Age range: 9+
Published by: Nosy Crow.
Illustrations: Alice Éclair is beautifully illustrated by Beatriz Castro (website and instagram).

Available languages: English, Italian.

Books in the series

A Dash of Daring

Alice’s fourth adventure takes her to France’s Olympic training camp. A brilliant young cyclist needs help. Her father has disappeared – along with the machine he invented that creates unbreakable codes. Undercover in the athlete’s butter-free kitchen, Alice is desperate to crack the case.

Armed with a light sponge mix and an airy disregard for danger, can Alice serve up a solution before it is too late?

Published: June 2024

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A Sprinkling of Danger

Alice’s third adventure takes her to a glamorous film set at the Palace of Versailles, where she is in a race against time to uncover an enemy spy. But while Alice balances espionage with baking perfect pâtisseries, someone is watching her. Someone with deadly intent…

Alice will need to use every trick in her recipe book to survive this mission!

Published: September 2023

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A Spoonful of Spying

In Alice’s second adventure, she is working undercover at the World Fair in Paris. Talented engineers are going missing every day and it’s up to Alice to find out who is betraying them, and what the link is to the Fair’s glamorous fashion halls. With a little help from a motorbike riding model and an ingenious young aeronautics engineer, Alice faces a race against time to unmask the traitor.

Published: January 2023

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“A Spoonful of Spying dishes up the same delicious mix of mouth-watering mystery, super-sleuthing, cakes baked to perfection, and fast-paced fun and action.”

Lancashire Evening Post

A Recipe for Trouble

In her first adventure, Alice Éclair is a rising star in the world of cake baking and decoration, able to recreate the Eiffel Tower in sugar and whisk fireworks out of spun sugar.

By night, however, she is France’s youngest spy, chasing down secret plans and microfilms. When she gets a mission to track down an enemy on board France’s most luxurious train, she jumps at the chance, but with everyone seeming to hold secrets, will she unmask the spy before they reach their destination.

Published: August 2022

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“Following the adventures of Alice Eclair, young Parisian spy, as she spins sugar and stories to access the enticing secrets of the unique characters around her was a pleasure.”

Gemma E. McLaughlin, The National

Where to buy

You can order Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire from your favourite bookstore, or you can buy online.

Nosy Crow – available in paperback, direct from the publisher.
Waterstones – available in paperback, for online delivery or delivery to your local store
Foyles – available in paperback
WH Smith – available in paperback
Amazon – available in paperback and for Kindle
Apple Books – read online in Apple Books
Google Play – available as e-books.
Bookshop.org – available in paperback
hive.co.uk – available in paperback

Loan from your library

If you are a reader in the UK, you can also check if your local public library has a copy that you can take out on loan.

Libraries are brilliant and a fantastic way to access so many books. I loved going to my local library as as a child and reading many, many (many…) books. I am thrilled that people can read books that I have written. ❤️❤️❤️

Find your local library in the UK at gov.uk.