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The ancient Roman town of Pompeii lies in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, but its inhabitants are blissfully unaware of the deadly threat of the volcano that is about to devastate their lives.Still on the hunt for their missing parents who are lost in the pages of history, twins Jemima and Joe Lancelot travel back into the past once again, along with best friend Charlie, and Max their talking Tonkinese cat.When the children arrive in the middle of a slave auction in the Forum, they are shocked to find themselves being sold to the highest bidder. Trapped in the household of a wealthy Pompeian, how will they manage to escape before the town is buried by the erupting volcano?

Max the talking Tonkinese cat has a third solo adventure in this seasonal tale.What happens when the feline hero is trapped in the attic one night?Will he escape the clutches of the Christmas fairy, a regiment of soldiers and three obstreperous French hens in time to enjoy a holiday with his family?One thing's for sure, the Twelve Days of Christmas will never seem quite the same again.

Firestorm Rising is John Clewarth's debut novel, for children aged 9 to 12+ years - and reached the finals of The People's Book Prize in 2013. Raingate Cemetery is the spooky playground of Tom Allerton, Daniel 'Doc' Studd and Jasmine 'Jazz' Baxter, and provides a great opportunity for them to play a practical Halloween joke on their schoolmates. Events take an unexpected turn when a freak storm occurs and lightning strikes an ancient and crumbling tomb. The children flee in terror, all except for Jazz who decides to investigate. Peering into the smoking rubble of the sepulchre, she is strangely drawn towards a weird pendant which unleashes a chain of terrifying and supernatural events. As the unearthly owner of the pendant endeavours to get it back, the friendship of the central characters is put to the toughest test, and they discover the true meanings of friendship, loyalty, truthfulness and fear. The children learn that there are far more things in the universe than they ever learned at school, as a terrifying monster is awakened from a long hot sleep...

Max the talking Tonkinese cat is terrified of Egyptian mummies, so is understandably nervous when he's transported back in time to ancient Egypt, along with his owners, twins Jemima and Joe Lancelot, and their friend Charlie.As they continue their search for the twins' missing parents who are trapped somewhere in the past, the young time-travellers arrive at the court of Tutankhamun where they uncover a plot to assassinate the young Pharaoh.Can they save his life and will they make it safely back to their own time before the plotters discover their true identities?

The Trojan War is just a game for the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece, but it's no laughing matter for Jemima and Joe Lancelot when they are transported back in time to Troy, slap-bang in the middle of the deadly conflict.Still on the trail of their missing parents who are lost somewhere in the past, the twins, together with best friend Charlie and their talking cat Max, do all they can to prevent the destruction of the famous city.Can the children persuade the Trojans to reject the Greeks' gift of the Wooden Horse or will it prove impossible to change the course of history?

In a post-apocalyptic Scotland ruled by women, Solem escapes from Man Camp 7, helped by a woman called Texta. He and a ‘clonie’ called Rea hope to reach the ‘Island’. How could he have known that this was all engineered as part of the Parth Path’s parthenogenesis programme to create the Immortal Controller, an invincible leader whose clones will rule forever?On the Island, he is haunted by memories of an idyllic childhood as ‘Peter’, on a reservation with his friend, wee Moira, before his family was brutally slaughtered by Parth Path wardens during a ‘clearance’. He struggles to rediscover happiness with Rea.Sara, a mysterious girl next door, falls for Peter, as he now prefers to be called again, though only shows this by helping Rea. Meanwhile, Moira, still yearning for her childhood sweetheart, after being sent to the Parth Path School, ends up as Director and as such is on the Parth Path Council. She joins Texta, really the brutal  man camp Commandant, to collect Rea’s baby from the Island, It turns out that little Mary is the genetically-contrived and much-awaited ‘Special Child’ of the parthenogenesis programme, Her clones are detined to rule forever as the 'Immortal Controller'..One of Texta’s bullies kills Rea. Moira, horrified, shoots Texta. Meanwhile, Sara escapes with Mary to the mainland, vowing to protect Peter’s child at all costs.At first Peter blames Moira for Rea’s death, but soon their past friendship is re-kindled. They make love, but are tricked by Matt, the father of Sara’s brother, and whose son was killed by Moira’s wardens, into believing their lives are in danger. Whilst Peter is told to hide in a cove, Moira is taken to a wartime hideout where she expects to meet up with Peter. Instead she’s cruelly raped by Peter’s reservation rival, Luke... Matt’s revenge for the death of his son. But Moira escapes and kills Luke, returning to the mainland to seek out Peter. Peter emerges from the cove to find Matt, in his rage, has also massacred all survivors of the Island community apart from Angela, Sara’s taciturn mother. He leaves the Island with her, hoping to find Mary in the City of the Castle (Edinburgh), but is warned against this. Instead, he finds Moira, and together they flee south of the wall that defines Parth Path territory (‘Parthpathia’) to start a new life in the ‘wilds’. Sara, meanwhile, living in the castle with Mary and a clone of elderly Controllers, is befriended by two old maids who knew the First Controller, the lesbian scientist who started the Parth Path project. She learns things from the ‘Shrine’, which houses the First Controller’s computers, that prepare her for what’s to come.When an epidemic of Scarlet Fever decimates the population, killing the Controllers and Moira, Peter, beside himself with grief, sets off for the City with one bullet left in his gun to kill Sara for conniving with the Parth Path and taking Mary away. However, he discovers a young woman, now Controller herself, and wise way beyond her years, who has been a perfect mother for his daughter. Sara had discovered that the First Controller wanted to abandon the parthenogenesis programme in favour of natural selection but was murdered by her minions. Peter now realises that only he and Sara, by working together, the ‘yin’ and the ‘yang’, can help society to start all over again.

This is the thirteenth book in the Shadows from the Past series, time-travel adventure stories that feature three children and a rather special cat.In 1588, a plot to invade England and overthrow Queen Elizabeth the First is about to unfold.At this crucial moment in English history, four visitors from the future arrive in Elizabethan London. Twins Jemima and Joe Lancelot, together with friend Charlie and their talking cat Max, embark on their next journey into the past as they continue the search for their missing parents who are lost somewhere in the mists of time.Finding themselves tangled in a web of conspiracy, can the young time-travellers solve the mystery of the Tudor Rose?

A collection of fifty-four short stories by a prize-winning novelist inspired by family connections and travels across the world. Some are set firmly in the real world: an elderly English spinster living with a grumpy sister reveals a long-kept secret when her American son gets in touch; a shy wife discovers she's more attractive than she had ever imagined when her husband's old friend turns up; a sexist professor learns the cruel truth on overhearing his latest 'conquest' talking to her friend in a cafe. Magic invades realism in 'The Red Chevy', when an old lady in a Texan care home relives her past until she escapes back into it. The writer's personal experience of an earthquake in China inspired 'The Old Grandmother' in which a grandfather and granddaughter make a pilgrimage up Tai Shan mountain to the Buddhist temple on the summit. In other stories, a Japanese man is married to a Manga girl whilst an Aborigine boy in Australia dreams of the legendary Red Kangaroo in 'Kangaroo Dreaming', a dream that foretells the end of White Man's world and a return to the old ways. There's gentle humour in 'The Hole', in which a hen-pecked Scottish Borders husband creates an underground retreat in his garden only to meet up with an ancient Celt doing the same to escape the invading Scots. In 'The Wave', a tribute to all who died in the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami, a wealthy Bangkok doctor returns to the beach where he used to meet up with his first love, a poor fisherman's daughter. An elderly woman questions why the walls in her nursing home whisper about death, and, in 'The Soul Sweeper', we learn what happens to the soul after death. A boy finds the ghost of Victorian girl under his bed in 'Pink Slippers', and in 'The Christmas Dance', a dying musician has his first-ever dance with the Angel of Death. In 'Frog Therapy Ltd', an infirm elderly couple learn that a potential cure also carries a risk of side-effects. In 'One Click Away', a man learns that computer problems extend to beyond the grave, and in 'Cissy', reincarnation links India with England. A notorious Italian jewel thief, who has inherited his mother's ability to transform into anything he chooses, gets comeuppance in one story. In another, a little girl meets a giant rabbit in an allegory about Man's greed destroying his planet. Orphaned tiger cubs kill a village girl to survive in 'The Two-legged Deer', and in 'A Baker's Novel', a dying man tries to re-write a tragic past in a novel. A man fighting for his life on an operating table, after a major head trauma,journeys, inside his head, to death in 'The Letter'. In 'C Sharp Minor', a young girl, aspiring to be a concert pianist, is in emotional turmoil after taking on the part of the teenage countess in a TV biopic about the doomed love affair between Beethoven and the girl for whom he wrote the Moonlight Sonata. One little boy wonders whether a sly fox that killed Old Annie's hens was really the devil; another, in 'The Tower of Truth', avoids a fairgound tower where his grandfather discovers pain, not pleasure, when promised 'the past, present and future.' A doctor discovers disturbing secrets about his family's past from his dementing aunt in one story. In another, an old Spaniard remembers the night his mother and village were wiped out by Franco's men. In 'Hawai'i', did the Polynesian Goddess of fire, Pele, really sit next to a tourist on an airplane? In another story, a classics professor is certain the flight attendant is Aphrodite. Although the stories span different genres, they share a common human

Ten-year-old twins Jemima and Joe Lancelot continue the search for their missing parents who are trapped somewhere in the past.Together with best friend Charlie, and their talking cat Max, they are transported back in time to ancient Crete and the Palace of Knossos, where the fearsome Minotaur lurks in its labyrinth, feeding on human flesh.Can they help Prince Theseus of Athens destroy the terrifying monster before it devours them all?And will the children survive the storm that threatens to wreck their ship as they attempt to flee the island?

The story of young Irishman, Oisin Kelly continues in this third novel. Oisin has settled in the outback Queensland town of Kilgoolga. Here his life becomes entwined with Vietnam War veteran, Harry. Past traumatic events affect both men in similar and sometimes surprising ways. A dark shadow is present at different times throughout this often emotional and powerful story. As Oisin discovers more and more secrets, he begins to wonder where his life  is leading and where his home truly is. Decisions have to be made as to which force is more powerful. Will it be the power of love over evil that will truimph and bring him home? 

Ten-year-old twins Jemima and Joe Lancelot have no idea why their parents have disappeared, but a mysterious old book belonging to their father holds the answer … and so begins a quest to uncover the truth.Together with Max their Tonkinese cat, and Charlie from next door, the children embark on an epic adventure, travelling back in time to the lost city of Atlantis, unaware of the dangers that await them.Can they save the people of Atlantis from the disaster which is about to destroy their land forever? And will they find their way back to the safety of their own time before it's too late?V

In The Merging, the Texan teenagers, certain that they were married in the distant past, and with their enemy dead in another dimension, finally have happiness ahead of them. But…Now some years older, Adam worries about the sadness in his singer-songwriter wife, Maria. Chloe, his younger sister, believes that he must confront the Death Lords in Xibalba, the Mayan Place of Fear, to save Maria and therefore Planet Earth. No One could have guesses whom Pepe, Adam's and Maria's son, would discover in the land of dead souls. In the third book of the From Beast to God trilogy, the truth about Maria is revealed.

  Rachel, a Texan schoolgirl, takes her hamster, Waffles, for a secret ride on the strange carousel rainbow animal in Houston. She ends up in Colourwallytown where people and houses are painted cheerful colours, and gets mistaken for their new military advisor in an impending war with neighbouring black and white Dullabillieville. The reason for the war appears to be a dispute over the true colour of witches.  She sees a boy in grey climb down from the zebra and leave the carousel in the direction of Dullabillieville, and is certain he’s her studious classmate Alec, accused by kids at school of being the son of witches. Taken in by a kind landlady, Mrs Pink, her hair, shoes and, by mistake, Waffles, are dyed pink to conform with Colourwally regulations. At a bizarre Council of War with President Banana, his nail-painting wife, First Lady Violet, the sheriff, sergeant and a batty General Greengage, the fact that she has no sensible ‘military strategy’ seems of no importance to the town’s leaders.  Sheriff Tomato, the nervous Colourwally sheriff, and Sergeant Lobster cause Rachel to giggle most of the time as she tries to lead the Colourwally troops, armed with paint brushes and the formidable ‘paint tank’, across the river to turn the Dullabillieville river-front houses pretty colours. They meet no resistance in Dullabillieville, apart from the Dullabilly lieutenant’s two small children who are having fun splashing coloured paint over themselves. Rachel soon discovers why. The Dullabilly army is the other side of the river busily turning Colourwallytown black and white and grey.  Frightened the two sides might actually come to blows and scare Waffles, the girl decides a treaty is called for. Besides, she doesn’t believe in witches! She returns, alone, to Colourwallytown  to seek out Alec, the Dullabilly military advisor, who turns out to be a nice lad. Together they scheme to hold a tea-party for the opposing factions and arrange a cease-fire. Presidents Banana and Coalface are invited, but only allowed to have pieces of Mrs Pink’s cake (the woman’s an excellent cook) if both agree to stop hostilities and sign ‘The Treaty of Waffles’. Mrs Pink, a widow, is delighted, for she can now offer to look after the children of the Dullabilly lieutenant, Whitestone, a widower whom she secretly likes.  Back at the carousel Rachel and Alec dodge the unpleasant true military advisor, Turkey Cupcake, to prevent him getting hold of their treaty. On Rachel’s return to the mall in Houston, astride the Rainbow Animal, she finds her mother still reading a magazine on a bench. Only three minutes have passed since the girl last saw her. When she sees Alec holding the Treaty of Waffles, having just dismounted from the zebra, she knows she didn’t imagine it all.  Alec leaves the treaty in the safe hands of the lady who takes the tokens at the carousel kiosk, and he and Rachel become good friends. Rachel spreads the word around that children who believe in witches are silly…and that Alec is the bravest boy in the school.  Although they disagree about things like ‘why Sheriff Tomato blinks a lot when he gets nervous’, they are agreed on one point: that war is stupid.

With the Vietnam War as background, life in 1970's Australia was a time of social and political change. Bitter, disillusioned and still haunted by past events, young Irishman Oisin Kelly arrives in the outback Austrlian town of Kilgoolga. As he struggles to come to terms with this new and sometimes frightening environment, he falls under the spell of the powerful and enigmatic Eleanor Bradshaw. He is totally unprepared for what happens next.

A Texan schoolgirl's feet will only point north... towards the Arctic. Earth Mother requires her help to save the world from a terror lying deep inside the Mountains of Sorrow. Something to do with a mysterious chamber of ice. And something to do with her Granny who lies ill in hospital. But feisty Jenny soon makes friends with the annoying spherical Snowball people, with hairy little mountain folk and with a small snow cat; friends that she and a Japanese boy she meets up with are going to need big time... An eco-fantasy for young readers set in North America.

This is the tale of Oisin Kelly, beginning with his mother, Annie as she struggles to come to terms with her love for two brothers. Married to Bernard, she is attracted to his brother, the mysterious and much misunderstood, Mick. Annie's strong Catholic faith engenders a deep sense of guilt, at the same time it helps her to cope. The story, set in 1950/60's Ireland, moves forward, sometimes gently, sometimes turbulently, combining pathos and humour. Although Crying Through the Wind is very much Annie's book, the stage is set for Oisin who has a quest of his own.

Caitlin and sister Rhona full prey to a Kelpie inhabiting a famous Scottish waterfall. Transformed by the evil horse spirit in to Mari, the fifteen-year-old Victorian Glaswegian orphan in the book she's reading, Caitlin is taken to a fairy-tale land where she believes she's the true princess. But the Kelpie has other plans for her. Can Rhona save her sister? And what about the woodcutter's son?