Synopsis: Spooking guests at Halibut hall has lost its edge for Alex and Grandpa. After haunting the place for nearly one hundred and fifty years the novelty has simply worn off. So winning a surprise holiday to Moonbalm Hotel is more than enough to put the two ghosts in high spirits.

Review: All is not as it should be at the hotel however and Alex soon discovers a plot to ...

Synopsis: Did the moon landing really happen? One boy with amazing abilities is going to find out! Using the incredible power of Noitanigami – and with his granddad’s help- Walter Speazlebud will travel back in time too 1969 to discover the truth.

It’s a big step for a small man…

Review: This is a quirky story involving the character of Walt ...

Synopsis:Matt has just moved to a new area but soon becomes embroiled in a mystery after he stumbles across a roadside shrine in which his own initials ML are carved. He learns that a local boy was killed there a few years earlier and local rumour says that Old Wil Jones was responsible. Then he meets Robbo and Tig who want revenge on the old man and before he knows it Matt is persuaded ...

Synopsis: Varjak Paw, the feral Mesopotamian blue, has mastered the six skills of the ancient martial art known as the Way. He has become a formidable hunter and fighter, but the city is becoming an unfriendly place. Sally Bones and her gang are extending their territory and brutally maiming all who stand in their path, and Sally Bones knows the Way much better than Varjak does. Soon th ...

Synopsis: Charlie Bone is, understandably, quite surprised to find that he is able to hear voices coming from photographs. His grandmother and her sinister sisters are over the moon to find that he is endowed and before he can blink he finds himself packed off as a weekly boarder at Bloor's Academy, a peculiar school, not far from his home in the city, but nonetheless blessed with it ...

Synopsis: Unassuming watchmaker Hermux Tantamoq is getting quite a name for himself. Following his adventures in the desert, he finds himself being sought out and charged with protecting the Varmint Variety Theatre from mysterious threats and designing a stage set at the same time. As if that were not enough, he has to thwart the vile Tucka Mertslin's latest attempt at self-aggrandi ...

Synopsis: In a world of vast oceans and half-drowned land, there is a legend of a ship of the dead; of the Vampirates. When orphaned twins, Connor and Grace Tempest, are separated by storm and shipwreck, Connor is picked up by the pirate ship Diablo, while Grace finds herself aboard a mysterious vessel which can only be the ship of the Vampirates. Each finds unexpected friends aboard th ...

Synopsis: Travelling circus troupe Maddigan’s Fantasia brave the unpredictable landscape of a post-apocalyptic world, spreading wonder and laughter. However, when three mysterious children join the Fantasia, bringing with them uncanny abilities and powerful enemies, the circus suddenly becomes embroiled in a series of terrifying adventures and a quest that could change the shape o ...

Synopsis: The paradise of Palmbeachia beckons with all its tropical splendour, but first the Darlings must sail past the Republic of Nananagua. A hot, smelly dictatorship, with a secret police force of nannies and surrounded by sharks. Sounds like a horrible place to run aground? It is.

Review: A worthy successor to Lemony Snicket, Llewellyn has created her own family of &l ...

Synopsis: Martine is eleven years old when she is tragically orphaned and finds herself living with her grandmother on a game reserve in Africa. In spite of the fascinating new experiences her surroundings bring, her unhappiness is intensified by the unenthusiastic welcome of her grandmother and her new schoolmates. Secrets and mysteries surround her new life, but when a beautiful white ...