00:00Hello, my name is Sarah Todd-Taylor and I'm the author of the Alice Seclair series, which
00:06is all about a young baker who lives in Paris and who lives an exciting double life. Alice
00:12works at her mother's bakery, creating the most incredible and tasty cakes, but she is
00:18also France's youngest spy, using her skills of coding and baking to foil dastardly plots
00:25and bring villains to justice. In the first in the series, A Recipe for Trouble, Alice
00:31tracks down some secret papers on France's most luxurious steam train. Then, in A Spoonful of
00:38Spying, she's off to the World Fair in the middle of Paris, and in this one she has to juggle
00:43exhibiting cakes, working behind the scenes at a fashion show, and tracking down a spy who she
00:49thinks is going to steal some secret plane plans in the engineering pavilion. And in the third in
00:55the series, A Sprinkling of Danger, she finds herself on a glamorous film set at the Palace of
01:00Versailles, but there's no time to be starstruck when your life is in danger and you have a traitor
01:05to catch. So those are the first three, with their beautiful jackets by Beatrice Castro, who is
01:12brilliant. Now, what is in store for Alice in book four? Well, this time she's off to a training camp
01:21for the Olympics, where one of the star athletes has been receiving curious, threatening notes.
01:27Alice thinks there's more to it than team jealousy, so can she solve the mystery
01:32and stop a secret coding machine falling into enemy hands? As always, she'll have friends to
01:38help. Casper the cat will be back, getting into trouble as always, and I've brought back a character
01:44who readers have always told me is one of their favourites, and they're one of my favourites too,
01:49so see if you can guess who that is. There will be danger, there will be codes to crack,
01:55lots of codes, and there will, of course, be cake. I really hope you enjoy reading
02:03Alice's Next Adventure as much as I loved writing it. Bye-bye.
