Book reviews

Shabti wakes in a barley field with nothing but a hoe in his hand and a head full of fragmented memories. A vicious master torments his days, working in the fields with no way of escape, until a hole suspended in mid-air, leads him to a room. Two shiny gold eyes glitter back at him. Questions. Wh...

After helping to rescue Sam Roberts in Foul Play, Danny gets a year-ten work experience placement with Anton Holt, his friend on the local newspaper.As part of his job he goes to interview a footballer. But, after the interview, he witnesses a staged car accident involving the player.This is the ...

1956 Freddy and Polly have always known their father is a genius. So they've never minded helping him with his experiments. Even when that means being put into cryonic suspension-having their hearts frozen until their father wakes them up again. They know it will only be for an hour or two, so th...

Taken from her mother and shipped to England as an exhibit for Sir Walter Raleigh, Nadie, a Native American, is thrust into the boiling pot of brutish Tudor life. Her only protector is Tom, a young blacksmith who falls in love with her. Too soon, however, Nadie is forced back to her exotic lands ...

Pete Bowland was busy doing nothing that summer. Then she called. "Listen, Pete, you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground, I thought we could all meet up, you know, for old times' sake." But as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the...

When the good-looking boy with the American accent presses the dropped negative into Rowan's hand, she's sure it's all a big mistake. But next moment he's gone, lost in the crowd of bustling shoppers. And she can't afford to lose her place in the checkout queue - after all, if she doesn't take th...

One boy, one deadly prophecy, one heart-stopping adventure. When his archaeologist father goes missing after an air crash in Mexico, UFO-obsessed Josh suspects alien abduction. But after he discovers his dad was murdered, Josh is caught up in a race to find the legendary Ix Codex - a lost book of...

Mokee Joe is back and he's stronger than ever. He's determined to finish what he's been programmed to do - destroy Hudson. As the nightmare returns, Hudson has to fight for his life in an epic battle of strength and skill!

When Paul meets the enigmatic Redman, he begins a hellraising journey that takes him from the streets and subways of London today back to the city's slums in the realm of Jack the Ripper and into the horror of Hell's underground.Find out more about this author on his website: www.alangibbons.com.

The battle takes a new and deadly twist, as Molly and Hudson return to earth with a bump, and their enemy's strength seems more potent than ever. Can they succeed before Mokee Joe wreaks vengeance on the entire world?

Billy couldn't be more excited to be going on holiday with his friend Calum's family, relieved to escape the creepy things that have been happening at home. But when the sinister things continue and get worse, he discovers a past history he never knew he had is catching up with him.

Marko and Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time. They must uncover the mystery of what has happened both to Sorrel's father, plagued by a strange madness that prevents him from sleeping, and to Marko's father, a doctor, who has mysteriously gone missing after travelling to Venice to help his o...