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A visit to the cemetery, a brush against a strange headstone, and Max’s life is changed. He experiences flashbacks of a life that isn’t his, from a time before he was born. Some of the memories are pleasant, some are . . . disturbing.Max also sees a boy that no-one else can. He reveals to Max twenty-year-old secrets, secrets that someone will go to deadly lengths to keep concealed. To right a tragic wrong, Max must leap into his new friend’s past, not knowing how his actions will a...

Max is haunted by a girl with green eyes. He ignores the odd visions, but then he meets the girl face to face. Her name is Julia, and she and Max knew each other once, in another world…and now she needs his help.The borders between realities are thinning, and Alastair Hammond’s experiments into the existence of parallel universes are dangerous and destructive.Marooned within a bewildering series of alternate timelines, Max and Julia are forced to fight for their own surviva...

A man without a crown could still be a prince. But what about a monster?Adalwin has always been a prince. Born into royalty as the heir to the throne of Hallin, he was raised to rule a kingdom. Only, the one he receives is not the one he expected.Cruelly cursed and presumed dead by all who once knew him, his kingdom is now made up of a murky glen where water-splashers dwell and crooked linden trees block the light. Sitting on a throne built from bracken and...

The Memory Bank is a two-part science fiction fantasy novel.The Memory Bank - All in the MindThe Memory Bank’s powerful prism was invented to preserve people’s memories for their families after they passed away, but as teenagers Joe and Alex discover, it also has a much more sinister purpose.Using masks created from people’s faces, Claudia Woodville and her associates can access memories connected to passwords for banking codes and military secrets. Joe and...

The Memory Bank is a two-part science fiction fantasy novel.The Memory Bank - Prisoners of the PrismSeparated and tumbling helplessly between the multiple memories preserved within the bizarre universe inside The Memory Bank prism, teenagers Joe and Alex seem to have no hope of ever escaping back to the safety of the real world.And yet even when they do manage to reunite,it isn’t long before Claudia Woodville herself enters the surreal memory world inside t...

Lost in Lumo tells the story of Mina, a girl who meets a shaggy, silent creature called Lumo at an abandoned bus stop. Together they spend fleeting moments in a seemingly ruined city that still seems to breathe. A melancholy picture book about loss, memory, and things that remain. It presents loose fragments, thoughts, images and speaks quietly of parting and the comfort that often sits where no one is waiting. Lost in Lumo leaves room for interpretation and is like a diary of the unspeaka...

The Order of Excalibur - The Ring of Fate is a fantasy novel for young adults set in Britain early in World War II. At the height of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, young Canadian wizards Nick and Ginny are recruited by the mysterious Order of Excalibur as the country faces the threat of invasion.Nick and Ginny's father, Robert Jennings, is the world's leading scholar on the magic and folklore of the Arthurian period, based at Cambridge University, while The Order of Excalibur...

The Order of Excalibur - The Ring of Fate is a fantasy novel for young adults set in Britain early in World War II. At the height of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, young Canadian wizards Nick and Ginny are recruited by the mysterious Order of Excalibur as the country faces the threat of invasion.Nick and Ginny’s father, Robert Jennings, is the world’s leading scholar on the magic and folklore of the Arthurian period, based at Cambridge University, while The Order of ...

Max experiences flashbacks of a life that isn’t his, from a time before he was born. Some of the memories are pleasant, some are . . . disturbing.The complete Flashback Trilogy, a paranormal adventure series with time-travel and mad science.Book 1: Flashback -- Max sees a boy that no-one else can. He reveals to Max twenty-year-old secrets, secrets that someone will go to deadly lengths to keep concealed. To right a tragic wrong, Max must leap into ...

The Time Traveler’s Guide examines the writing of time travel stories and historical fiction. Books always transport us to other places, especially stories involving time travel or those set in different historical eras.The book examines the definition of time travel and historical fiction, the creation of time machines, methods and devices, selecting historical eras and settings, and creating characters and crafting dialogue. The book also explores common issues with time travel s...

The Order of Excalibur - Reich Britannia is a fantasy novel for young adults set in a parallel universe in the early 1940s, where Germany has invaded and occupied Great Britain. This was one of the possible futures shown between the standing stones of Merlin's Ring of Fate that has now become reality, once the stones were materialized by Canadian teen wizards Nick and Ginny.Nick and Ginny are initially separated in a deadly nightmare world before being recruited by the British Resi...

The Order of Excalibur - Reich Britannia is a fantasy novel for young adults set in a parallel universe in the early 1940s, where Germany has invaded and occupied Great Britain. This was one of the possible futures shown between the standing stones of Merlin’s Ring of Fate that has now become reality, once the stones were materialized by Canadian teen wizards Nick and Ginny.Nick and Ginny are initially separated in a deadly nightmare world before being recruited by the Bri...