Whizzard!

Harper Collins ISBN 0007108648

Tym is determined to be a Wizard, but he isn't the seventh son of a seventh son. He's only the first of a second, which doesn't amount to much even when you multiply it. But when Tym, prompted by the mysterious Dreamwalker, mixes potions past their spell-by date, he finds that he is able to move faster than the human eye can follow. He has become -not a Wizard -but a Whizzard.
The King of Thieves and his son, Cutpurse Colin, discover Tym's new power. A bungled burglary thrust Tym and Colyn into a desperate race against time to save the Lady Zamarind.
But the way bristles with danger. Unco-operative Gnomes, Gobblings and a pitiless Pirate Queen -and that's before they confront the legendary Cumhera, from whose realm no traveller has ever returned...

The 2Steves Say...
"This is one of those books where the title came first. Then we had to ask - what is a Whizzard? What does it do?.

Captain Gorge's seafaring terms are all authentic, but meaningless in the way he uses them, and Sulkies are the Dark Forest version of Selkies, the mer-people of Orkney and Shetland".

Other People Say... "Very exciting. Five stars - a cool read."