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.

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.

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.

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?

In the Beginning

Time is all. A new cycle has begun.

The Atlas Mountains in Morocco, present day: A Berber boy, Uyyub, falls asleep under a sacred tree and dreams the tree talks to him. Curious and intrigued, he returns, but this time the tree talks to him when he is not asleep. Together they travel through time, charting the course of the evolution of life on Earth with particular reference to his clan’s genesis. Uyyub’s sister, Thiyya, joins them to watch the dirty-dancing dinosaurs and ends up interacting with events at the meeting between man and superman. Belief, Sid, is close by on all occasions to guide the brother and sister towards the final meeting with Time himself.

Our solar system is one of the several nurseries within the universe, devised by Time and his many personalities (the gang) to promote life and help staunch Time’s ongoing boredom.

The experiment on planet Earth is a miraculous success, giving rise to much speculation within Time’s gang. It is, therefore, being closely monitored and so the illegal time travellers are soon discovered, prompting a race between Time, who is determined to put an end to this anomaly; and the sacred tree, equally determined to enlighten the children fully of their heritage. Who will win the race?

In Time

Join Roger on his adventures as he is being blasted back into the past. He meets many famous people, is imprisoned, and gets into other scrapes. He is helped through his ordeals by taking modern technology (his mobile phone) with him. He also meets girls along the way, although it could be the same girl throughout the ages.

His life is peppered with trips to the past and sometimes characters from the past end up in the present day, they become his friends. There are relationships, some tragedies but humans adapt. One chapter involves some of the author’s family and is a true account more tragic than any fiction could be. The reader will have to decide which chapter is being referred to.

Throughout the story there are fights, battles, mystery and the paranormal.

Finally, there is a glimpse of the future of cars and driving, not all of which is to Roger’s liking.

Jamieson

What would you do if you were offered the chance of a new life?

I struggled with the decision – leave my home completely – running away from my family was the first step, the other side of the world couldn’t hurt?

A chance to finally be yourself.

I could finally move out of the shadows and see what I could do.

To be accepted for who, not what you are.

Ever since the wings had grown, all I was seen as was a monster. Maybe now they would be able to see past them, to who I really am.

I suppose all I could do was wait and see.

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.

Justice

“I’m not broken, but I’m far from repaired.”

Justice is a suicidal teenager whose life is not only saved but suddenly worth saving when she turns the knife on her abusive father.

Self-orphaned, she literally closes the door on his body and reinvents herself. Yet some harsh realities never change.

Justice is still bullied at school, particularly for her rumoured affair with her science teacher, something they’re compelled to explore.

But Justice’s new life doesn’t stay perfect for long, and after her father’s body is discovered she decides to pack her bag and run...

Kangis Kanga – The Flying Kangaroo

Kangis Kanga is a one of a kind kangaroo. He has magic feet and soon realises that every time he jumps he can go as high as he wants and is able to travel anywhere, even into space, way beyond the moon and stars. He lives in a big zoo in a place called Perth, in Australia, and is known to all the animals because they are fascinated to hear what he’s been up to upon his return from faraway places. He is friendly, funny and always takes his little companion, a field mouse named Mel, with him on his exciting adventures. The two friends learn some amazing facts about our universe whenever he takes that giant leap. Join him on his latest expedition and discover some unusual facts about our solar system.

Kim's War

Kim was only seven years old when he watched soldiers burn his home down.

He never saw his family again after he drifted into the jungle on his own.

Thankfully, he remembered their instructions on how to survive and did so for three years, until he found sanctuary.

He took revenge before settling down into a new good life. But he always remembered to listen carefully to his elders.

Last Hong Kong Summer

Set in suburban To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in the summer of the political riots, John, Paul, George, and Richard – the four Beatles, as they are known – find themselves caught up in the murder of a family member of a friend, plus a suicide and domestic violence. They begin to learn that schoolyard practical jokes have unforeseen and unpleasant consequences in the adult world outside of the classroom. They also encounter an unlikely middle-aged adversary, their old school’s psychologist, Mr Zhao. As the allegations and counter-allegations of violence threaten to spiral out of everyone’s control, how will the four get out of trouble?