Juniper's Odyssey

When you guide the boy in your care to the battlefield in Afghanistan; when that boy is fourteen-year-old Jarvis Juniper and you are his guardian angel, there are questions to answer. Ankarra returns home to her own guardian in a bid to save Jarvis. High in the tree houses of another dimension, Jacinda’s shrouds are lit and the fool’s journey revealed.

With his dad missing in action, Jarvis becomes a vulnerable outsider. Trapped by his grief and uncertainty, he finds escape in graffiti. His creativity unwittingly opens new doors to old realities. Is it a dream or just the fumes from his paint tin? Stepping in to one of his own art works, Jarvis meets Percy on a path in an ancient wood; little does he suspect that path will lead him all the way to Camelot.

In My Mind‘s Eye

The trials and tribulations of a young girl trying to find her own path in life when her family breaks down, leads to a traumatic and turbulent experience for all involved.

Friendships come and go and the real meaning of life becomes apparent along the way after several close encounters with death. One young person’s choices have great consequences on those around her, trampling on their feelings and destroying yet more lives. How many families can one young person shatter?

Ice Kids

A journey to their winter camp far to the south finds six snow and ice kids locked in an underground prison from which they must escape if they are to survive. A near fatal disaster, a welcome discovery, hunted by a ferocious enemy, and befriended by the most unusual animal will find them battling for their lives. Jay, their leader, alone must solve the most difficult challenges that will bring the need for every one of the children to work together.

Wonders of an ice world and vivid memories of a long-forgotten past will haunt them all the way until finally, a last desperate battle will determine whether they will be triumphant or whether they will perish.

I'm Just Me

Meet Alex. Alex is a boy who doesn’t believe being a boy or a girl should determine how you think; he is just Alex. 

He lives near Midtown and travels over the bus network having adventures in some very unusual surrounding towns with his dog Blink, whose main aim in life is to sniff everything in the world and who dreams of being RocketDog. 

At the ends of the bus lines, they meet people who live in closed towns, they are either all black or white, gay or straight, religious or atheist, rich or poor, old or young, or very differently able. 

Alex can’t understand why they should live like this. He tries to get them to travel to Midtown, where they might be surprised by how people of all kinds can live together equally. Blink thinks they are all equally sniffable. If Alex is just Alex, perhaps they might realise they can just be themselves too, just equal individuals, with equally important mixtures of properties. 

I’m Just Me looks at how we all tend to label people, to place them in boxes, usually because of one main property: colour, gender, sexuality, mental or physical ability, wealth, religion, politics, class or age. BUT each property is a line and we are all a dot on every one of those lines somewhere. Where all the lines cross for us, we find our own point of individuality. 

If each point is equal, then WE MUST ALL BE EQUAL.

Holding Strong

Forced to leave school and her foster home, Abigail is a 16-year-old girl who would like nothing more than to be normal or maybe extraordinary. She has big dreams that may just start with returning to school. But will she make it? If Abigail can change her world maybe so can we.

Hocker Alley

A footballing prodigy with the opportunity of a lifetime. A devoted single mother succumbing to addiction. A fatherly coach trying to do the right thing. Together they created something beautiful: their relationship. 

Life sometimes kicks you when you’re down. Hocker Alley reminds us to kick back.

Golden Flower

Imagine a flower. A flower which could turn the ocean into gold and lead you through the gates of heaven. Legend has it, when you drop the flower under the moonlight in the Caspian Sea, it will light up the path to the biggest booty of them all.

This is exactly what Captain Bruno and his crew are searching for, to bring the golden pirate age back. Captain Bruno sails across the land together with his crew to search for treasure, determined to beat the rival ship Black Galley for the first time in history.

It all takes a turn when Captain Bruno suddenly falls ill, his daughter is determined to figure out her past, Black Galley seems to keep a track on them and the golden flower isn’t exactly what they thought it would be.

Finding the Wind

This is a novel for young people of any age who believe that thinking matters, quite literally, and that it can make an exciting difference to everyday lives.

Thandi has lost both her parents and her focus in life. Through a quest of self-discovery she learns to be compassionate towards herself and others. Her journey spans learning from brick and mortar schools, an indigenous healer, the bush, the ocean, the mountain, and the great saints of both past and present.

The story addresses the question: How should we live our lives? It explores how we can make our world better or worse by being kind or unkind to ourselves, others and our environment. Our choices matter quite literally as they shape our world.

This is the magic of quantum theory – our thoughts write the landscape of our lives. We are participants in the universe, not passive observers.

Escape from the Shades

Brother and sister, Tom and Bobby, are orphans growing up rough, with their dog Tag, in the Victorian East End of London. Helped by Dr Barnardo, they have begun to make progress when Bobby is attacked in the notorious Rookeries. Tom comes to the rescue but finds himself arrested, in a cell, and then before the Beak. His trial is at the Old Bailey where he is not allowed to speak in his defence. Then Tag comes to his rescue!

Duchess of Summerhill Park

Alexia and her brother Brad travel out beyond Yass River to bring home Duchess, the beautiful black pony with the four white socks.

The clever Duchess has many pony tricks in store for her new family, but proves to be very brave, when things go amiss at Pony Club Camp.

Alexia dreams of competing with Duchess at the annual Royal Show, but there are lots of obstacles to jump first!

Crew in Crisis

My name is Marcus or ‘no mates’ as some children at school have labelled me, and I live in the beautiful country of New Zealand, where the water surrounds us and sports of all sorts are enjoyed.

I had got so used to having no friends that the day I finally found one was special, and slightly slightly embarrassing. Also, it was the day I learned shocking lessons about planet Earth which made having friends to share them with all the more important. Soon we were introduced to MestNed, a company that was having a big impact on the environment. When we discovered what they were really up to, my friends and I decided we had to do something about it! Only trouble was, we were up against one of the most powerful companies in the world and we were just children.

Winning seemed as likely as my dog, Muffin, flying to the moon!

On my own, I wouldn’t have even tried… Now, I had friends, well, that made all the difference. Even so, we knew it wouldn’t be easy.

Annwyn and the Marble Tears

Even Heroes Have Their Flaws

He sold his soul to save her life.

For Aaron Annwyn to rescue Diana, he must continue time-shifting with the Secret Society. His mission takes him to the studio of Leonardo da Vinci to undertake the most infamous fraud of all time, a copy of the Holy Shroud.

Hell-bent on destroying the SSJ, he uncovers their dark web, copying information that will devastate the group. Unexpectedly, his heart is torn by a beguiling 15^th-century duchess but without staying operational, he will lose her forever. Aaron is torn between his vows of love for Diana, his need for justice and his passion for Lucrezia.

Compelling and suspenseful, Annwyn and the Marble Tears, the sequel to The Ship of Solomon, irresistibly combines desire in a time-travelling double-helix of deceit and loyalty.