Five cartoon woodland friends in martial-arts robes around a messy dinner table in a cosy treehouse, with gravy flying everywhere

EDACK Books

Funny books that make you think.

Stories for curious kids and grown-ups who've had enough.

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For kids

Cover of The Lean Heroes and the Dinner Disaster by David Edack: five woodland friends around a messy dinner table

Ages 8 to 11 · 72 colour pages · Paperback

The Lean Heroes and the Dinner Disaster

Five woodland friends turn Friday dinner into a disaster, then learn the five steps the world's best factories and hospitals use to fix problems: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control. A funny story with 'Your Turn' activity pages, puzzles, colouring pages and a Lean Hero certificate.

  1. DefineWhat's wrong?
  2. MeasureCount it
  3. AnalyseFind out why
  4. ImproveFix it
  5. ControlKeep it fixed
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The Lean Heroes badge: Lauren the Owl, Ethan the Squirrel, Aaron the Monkey, Neo the Badger and Risky the Raccoon

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Help the Lean Heroes save dinner, one step at a time. Works on phones and tablets.

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A4 is for the UK and Europe. US Letter is for the USA and Canada.

For grown-ups

British satire

Cover of Cookie and the Pantomime of Power by EDACK: a lollipop lady's STOP sign in front of the door of Number 10, between red theatre curtains

Cookie and the Pantomime of Power

The whole British government is secretly a pantomime, run by a bored AI called Cookie. Then the system picks a villain for the nation to boo: Glenda Price, a lollipop lady from Gloucester with no smartphone.

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About 15 minutes · Narrated with digital voices.

Download MP3 of Chapter One of Cookie and the Pantomime of Power (9 MB)

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Cover of The Watcher's Guide to the End of the World by EDACK: a large eye with the letter E, and the words Stay calm. Stay compliant. Stay you.

The Watcher's Guide to the End of the World

In 2019 a council clerk dropped one letter from a man's name, and the national database created a second person. Now EDAK is the most dangerous man in Britain and, technically, about forty million people.

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About 15 minutes · Narrated with digital voices.

Download MP3 of Chapter One of The Watcher's Guide to the End of the World (9 MB)

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About the author

About EDACK

EDACK spent 35 years in operations and logistics and has more than fifty years in martial arts, teaching numerous adults and children and creating two training styles, one for children and one for adults. Now EDACK writes British satire for adults and problem-solving adventures for children.

Master Taff, the wise bearded dragon from the Lean Heroes, in a gold picture frame

EDACK also has a pet bearded dragon called Taff. Or maybe Taff has a pet human.

Master Taff, from the Lean Heroes, is inspired by the real Taff.