24 episodes of Christmas adventure

Timothy Hope, desperate to impress the beautiful but disdainful Lady Misericordia, stows away on Lord Daunt's expedition to the North Pole, and finds himself caught up in an adventure of high seas, deep crevasses, slavering wolves, reindeer sleigh rides and much, much more, with only his wits and inventiveness to keep him and his friends alive.

The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope is a seasonal story of unlikely accidents and hair-raising escapes told in 24 letters sent home by Timothy Hope as he journeys in the Arctic Circle. Featuring characters such as the unhinged big-game hunter Baronet Oxshott, the scatter-brained genius Professor Cumulus and the always inventive Timothy Hope, the story is a frequently silly, always exciting sleigh ride into the heart of Christmas itself.

Timothy Hope was originally written as a Christmas present for my nieces when they were small and is a very fanciful, light-hearted adventure story. It’s got a slightly steampunk setting: vaguely Victorian with lots of steam trains and horse-drawn carriages and new-fangled inventions like electric light and bicycles.

Written by Tobias Sturt and read by John Millington

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