Boss of the Underworld: Shirley vs the Huge Beast : Book 2

Author: Tor Freeman

For National Curriculum Key Stage 2

Published on 15 January 2026 by Hachette Children's Group (Hodder Children's Books) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Boss of the Underworld' series.

Paperback | 160 pages
148 x 210 x 12 | 346g

Second in a hilarious full-colour graphic novel series by the award-winning Tor Freeman, perfect for fans of Jamie Smart's Bunny vs Monkey. Come with Shirley as she falls down a hole into the Under-Underworld...

Shirley follows her cockroach companion George into the Under-Underworld and finds herself immediately crowned as queen. With Peels, a banana-skin royalist, Shirley travels across the junkyard of this new world to rescue George and confront the Huge Beast who has been terrorising the land.

Praise for Boss of the Underworld:'Genuinely laugh out loud funny' Louie Stowell'This is very funny - and more crucially, it's weird' Cariad Lloyd'Out of this underworld!' Steven Lenton'A tour de force of silliness' Gary Northfield