Bøker av John Hearne

When Martin Ryan sees a video of his father flying unaided through the air, he realises everything he believed about his life has been a lie.Now his parents have disappeared and Martin discovers something weird brewing in the disused mines of the seaside village where he lives. Something glowing. Something ... egg-like. Someone's definitely been messing with reality. Martin and his friends must do whatever they can to defeat the aliens that threaten the entire human race. Even if it means stealing cop cars, blowing up the mines and turning a paddling pool into a fighter aircraft.

Absurdly enjoyable dark adventure about a boy's mission to stop his evil sisters terrorising the town

Set in a colonial Caribbean country in the post-war years, Stranger at the Gate is a classic Caribbean novel with the narrative drive of Hemingway, the sense of fate of classical Greek tragedy, a sensuous appreciation of Jamaica, and an acute, if indulgent, portrayal of the white and light-brown landed and commercial elite.