Synopsis: A war is beginning in the land of Arboria, and Kenneth is desperate to save it against the Barbarians. Yet as war rages in the real world Ken finds himself becoming the only person who cares about the fate of Arboria. He must find a way of preventing its destruction before it´s too late.

Review: Most of this novel is set during the 2nd World War and Cockayne ...

Synopsis: Do you believe in fate? David Case does. When he saves his little brother from falling out of a window, he begins to believe that fate is after him. He is desperate to escape it. But can he conquer it?

Review:This novel is engaging from the outset as we become drawn into the world of David Case (later known as Justin) who begins to believe that fate is out to get ...

Synopsis: Don't panic - I'm Islamic. Amal is a 16-year-old Melbourne teen with all the usual obsessions about boys, chocolate and Cosmo magazine. She's also a Muslim, struggling to honor the Islamic faith in a society that doesn't understand it. The story of her decision to "shawl up" and its attendant anxieties (like how much eyeliner to wear) is funny, surpri ...

Synopsis: A hard-hitting novel about two teenagers facing up to the consequences of racial prejudice between asian and black communities, from award-winning author Bali Rai.

Review: When Simran falls in love with Tyrone she is right to feel uneasy. She knows that a local Asian youth group is at war with what they call the kalah. She tells her mother about an imaginary frie ...

Synopsis: This is a story about Keir. It’s a story about Keir in Keir’s own words. Keir’s an all round ‘good guy’. He comes from a good family and has good manners. If Keir’s a bit playful, he’s a ‘lovable rogue’. That is what Keir will tell you. He’s in love. But you might come to think that Keir doesn’t always tell the ...

Synopsis: Paris has always felt a greater kinship with her Uncle Franklin than with her parents or any other member of the pampered upper classes. It seems to her that they are of a different species to lesser humans and so, when he offers to take her on one of his hunting expeditions, she readily accepts. She knows that Franklin makes her own rules and that everything she does in his pr ...

Synopsis: Takeo and Kaede have been reunited and, after all their trials, have at last been joined in marriage. Surely nothing now stand in the way of their happiness and the fulfilment of Takeo's destiny: To rule the Three Countries in peace and justice. * Yeah; right.

Takeo's quixotic and unbiddable nature has made an enemy of the powerful warlord Arai, and the powerful, ...

Synopsis: It is fifteen years since the Change and everyone who saw the event is now dead, for no human lives beyond their fourteenth birthday in the world of the Overlords. Well...almost no-one. As the Overlords and their inhuman servants fight their ritual battles over the blasted remains of humanity's empire, a handful of children have escaped from the dorms and evaded pursuit. Le ...

Synopsis: Rob's once-charmed life is blighted by the accident which has left his sister, Chloe, in a coma. Once the golden boy of a golden family, now his parents are falling apart as Chloe lies, neither dead nor alive, but caught between Earth and the Underworld of Arawn like a wedge in a door. Through this door comes a man called Vetch, a shapeshifting bard, pursued by a vengeful w ...

Synopsis: Huw seems to lead a charmed life. First, he is the sole survivor of a train wreck, then he narrowly avoids a road accident, thanks to the intervention of a stranger named Vaughn. But how can he feel lucky when his parents were killed in that train crash? How can he get on with his life when he seems to be being sucked into the Vaughn family curse? How can he find peace if he is ...