The Rosie books are written by CJ Chesterton. When in 1993 CJC retired from research and teaching at King's College London, he began writing about the life of Rosemary Whyte. In the books (most of which are available as eBooks – see Shop Page) she’s reached 44 years of age.





The story begins at age 7 when, in a wood, a wicked witch shrinks Rosie down to mouse size and she becomes ROSIE MOUSE who:

• Rescues her best friend from the Wizard's Cave
• Takes a lost baby dragon home to his parents
• Steals the Witch's clock to release a girl trapped inside
• Gets rid of a Big Bad Wolf who's eating everyone
• Rescues baby unicorn from fierce lion
• Escapes from being eaten by Witch’s Cat
• Rescues a toy white knight and his horse (they come alive!)
• Rescues her mice friends from the clutches of an evil monkey
• Climbs a magic nutmeg tree and visits the King of Spain’s castle to rescue his daughter from her prison at the top of a tower
• Pretends to be a princess to get rid of a cruel mouse king
• Agrees to try to kill another Big Bad Wolf who is trying to eat a family of three little pigs who live by the sea
• Goes with Hazel Mouse into Merlin's Cave to rescue Mabel Mouse from the clutches of a wicked wizard
• Rides a crocodile who is hunting a pirate king - Captain Hook - and helps him get revenge

At age 11 she and her friend Kathie win places at Mundella High School where they take over the school hockey team and:

• Follow a 400 year old monk's treasure trail to the Pot of Gold
• Discover the body of a murdered youth and turn detectives to work out who killed him
• Crack the secret of the Haunted Wood
• Hunt a traitor who they think betrayed the school hockey team's strategies to their rivals for the Surrey County League Shield
• Find a coded message on the underside of a floor slab in a Tower of London dungeon - instructions to the place where a butter barrel of gold is buried
• The Great Wizard makes Rosie disappear!
• When the girls visit a magic shop to buy tricks, they meet THE MAGUS - a very tricky character who seems to know all about them.

At 18, Rosemary leaves school and:

• When the police give up, seeks the murderer of a dead Lord who was found in a castle's sealed locked billiard room with a bullet through the head
• Starts uni' in London - dates, dinners, drama club, and a little studying
• Is persuaded to go pot-holing to raise money for College Rag Week, but when deep down a borehole, something terrible happens
• Finds getting a job difficult after uni', but not boyfriends who want to help
• Decides on a career singing and dancing in a band
• Loses her parents in a car crash which nearly kills her; she goes to Spain to get over it all
• Finds paradise when she falls in love; finds hell when he dumps her before the wedding
• Gets blackmailed by MI5 to spy on an Irish friend who they believe is an IRA terrorist
• Is called in to help clear the names of a couple charged with tunnelling into a bank vault
• Gets offered yet another short term job with the Metropolitan Police to investigate a crook called Gertrude Stein who, unbeknownst to her or the police, is planning THE SECOND GREAT DIAMOND HEIST
• Wants to go travelling and accepts a mission for MI6 which will take her to India. But there's a catch. This leads to a situation where she has to help site and fire a huge medieval catapult - a trebuchet - to defend the group against a gang of murdering bandits

• On her travels after leaving India, Rosemary and her dear friend, Annie, stray into the territory of a megalomaniac drug baron and bad things happen
• In the book 'Reverse Labouchère', Rosie reaches the Rockies! She makes it to the USA and contacts her old flame, Red O’Neill. Red’s a gambler and persuades Rosie to join him milking casinos of millions of dollars using an ‘infallible’ system for winning at roulette called The Reverse Labouchère. The only problem is: the Mafia have a contract out to assassinate her.