Arthur Templar and his close-knit group of psychic twelve year olds must defeat a gang of evil Nibiruan secret agents attempting to mine 'the core'- a quantum power source. The gang and their leader deceive the children with one challenge after another.The children must grow and develop their psychic abilities while they try to protect Elderberry Valley and the star people who live there.

Arthur Templar and the Secret Codex is set in the Elderberry Academy for Special Education.The only Eternal Library in the world is at the Academy. It has disappeared and this library matters. It contains destiny scrolls for Arthur and his friends.The stakes are high as Arthur Templar, a young timethreader with extraordinary psychic powers, and psychic friends attempt to unravel the dark secrets of the missing library.The danger increases as they get closer to uncov...

Arthur Templar knows if he tries to rescue his parents, they could die.But if he does not rescue them, they will certainly die.General Zardaq learned that Arthur Templar's parents discovered how to control a runaway fusion reaction as part of their medical research.Zardaq took over the planet. He is terrorising its people, and he has kidnapped Arthur's parents to extract their secrets.Arthur has no option but to attempt a rescue. But he knows he will be tradi...

Immie Whitfield and her circle have mapped the Collector network, destroyed four supernatural nodes across three continents, and built the legal case that will bring the organisation down. Now they know what is left: not a building, not a ledger, not an archive. A manufactured thin place in the west of Ireland, built a hundred and fifty years ago from a covenant that was never supposed to be sealed — holding the original agreement, the true version, the one that proves the Collectors were ...

Something is moaning on the headland at Point Peron — and whatever it is, it empties a school camp in under an hour.Barry Carter is fourteen, constitutionally unable to lie to his mother, and — as the framed commendation on the HQ wall attests — President of the Safety Bay Six. When Year Nine camp ends two days early after an unearthly sound drives twenty-six boys and two teachers from their bunks, Barry knows, with the reluctant certainty of a boy who has been right about this sor...

It is the summer holidays in Safety Bay, and Barry Carter has a credibility problem. Lying on his verandah at eleven forty-two on a hot January night, he watches a green light blink twice, pause, and blink twice again from Penguin Island — which has been closed since the last ferry came home at four. Nobody believes him. Barry mistook a wheelie bin named Bruce for a shark. He has no credibility.But Rose believes him. And Rose recruits Annie, who already has a notebook. The notebook...

The annual Classics Dinner is in full swing. Professor Hadley MacNamara — formidable, silver-haired, sixty-five, the kind of man rooms arrange themselves around — is holding court on the veranda of the Scholar's Table above the Swan. His toast is is genuinely brilliant. It moves from Homer to the geography of joy, and the room gives him exactly the silence he deserves.Then, after the silence, something is different.He begins a sentence he does not finish. He reaches for a c...

The boarding house stood on the edge of Boulder, itscorrugated iron roof catching the last rays of sunlightlike copper pennies. It was a place of openness andhonesty in a hard world, an island sanctuary amongstthe poppet heads and rusty iron that defined the gold‐fields. Here, the Butler family kept their doors open tominers, drifters, and dreamers—anyone who needed abed and a warm meal in the unforgiving desert land‐scape of ...

The Timethreader Chronicles blend fantasy, YA, sci-fi, and supernatural and offer a fresh narrative canvas that stands out from most typical genre conventions. Arthur's personal journey intertwined with family secrets and ancient powers, positions him as both a victim and a chosen one, adding depth to his character. An unexpected twist reveals ties to Arthur's ancestry and infuses the narrative with a captivating duality in motivations. This element of family legacy, paired with advanced t...

High-reliability management is a set of practices and competencies that help Organisations operating in high-hazard environments maintain a low risk of accidents. These Organisations recognise the inherent risks associated with their operations and actively work to minimise them, even in complex and challenging circumstances.Clear and understandable core management competencies are needed to prevent 'preventable' accidents.Dr Maher's research provides valuable insights into...

When a small, ancient Irishman appears on a school fence post eating a cheese sandwich, entirely invisible to almost everyone — fifteen-year-old Immie Whitfield is not entirely surprised. She has always been able to draw characters who step off the page and speak to her. She has always known the world was stranger than it appeared.She doesn't know her estranged grandfather is a magician. She doesn't know that an organisation called the Collectors has been watching her fami...

Alex Moreton thought she understood grief. She thought she understood archives too: their order, their absences, the way a missing page could say more than a hundred that remained.Then she finds a hidden vault beneath the university, and inside it a record of everything her family and her institution have spent generations trying not to know. There is a dead girl, a dead engineer, a ledger that keeps the dark half of the story, and a woman who has spent forty years standing guard o...