How Jason Byrne's childhood inspired his new book

With its third instalment about to hit shelves, the comedy veteran peels back some of the layers behind his Onion O'Brien series of kids' books

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A mad scientist plots away on a mysterious new project. The residents of the local nursing home are acting very strangely indeed, and just to add to all this intrigue, men in black have suddenly turned up around the place. It all looks like a job for the bould Onion O’Brien and his crack team of juvenile (mis)adventurers, in The Secret Scientist — the third instalment in comedian Jason Byrne’s The Accidental Adventures of Onion O’Brien series of irreverent yet accessible children’s books.

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