A treasured cat with a big problem.The Andrews feed poor Gabby cheap tinned fish. This is unsatisfactory for such a refined feline. Gabby decides to investigate options in the local eats street, not without a few setbacks!'As the owner of a fussy feline, I was right there with Gabriel on his quest for a proper meal. After encountering the rough and tumble of Miriam St, will Gabriel ever get fed? Will he ever make it home? Like all Alan Horsfield's books, Ga...

It's an eerie mystery for uni student, Eddie Haite, whose casual summer holiday on a remote tropical island in Fiji, changes from an idyllic escape into a nightmare. Eddie, on a chance meeting, agrees to help a scientist, Rex King, carry out experiments on rats recovered from an old Pacific atomic testing site. As Eddie watches Rex descend into madness he realises there is something terrifying about the rats' strange behaviour.ReviewsOn completing this book...

After his marriage breaks up Shane's father buys an old bush school property next to Clarry Johnson's neglected orchard and Shane and his dad move there. It is an eerie, lonely, isolated place, far removed from Shane's earlier life. Living in a small caravan in the deserted school grounds adds to Shane's feeling of vulnerability.There is something disturbing about the unneighbourly Clarry Johnson, and something even more disturbing about his strange teenage daughter, Ellie, who pus...

Rudi has inadvertenty and rather naively become Sandbar Council's official dog dropping collector. Starting off by walking and using only plastic bags to 'collect' droppings and a sack to hold them Rudi developed a number of improved methods to collect the 'deposits'. His younger brother (Morris - narrator) is an embarrassed and unwilling helper. Rudi replaces carrying the sack to using a wheelbarrow. He then uses his bike to pull the wheelbarrow. This culminates in an engine driven variat...

Before boarding the Sea Breeze for a leisurely cruise of the Tahitian Islands Hawkins is suddenly and strangely transported into another era-the days when pirates plundered the Spanish towns on the South American west coast and took refuge in Tahiti. How did he enter this world? Will he escape with his life? His is an exciting, surreal pirate story set in the South Pacific, with all its dangers, treason and dastardly deeds. And its colourful, if somewhat double-dealing characters....

Lucky Shoemaker loves being a detective and solving mysteries of very strange crimes. She once solved the mystery of the holes that had been stolen. Now she has a new mystery that is just as baffling. Someone is taking people's time, time that has been saved has disappeared and time that been unaccountably lost. Then all the clocks in the neighbourhood just simply stopped. Who was behind this mystery? Could the culprit be the strange Mr Grimm who is always around when no one has any time o...

A Grave Business is a humorous yet somewhat sinister and suspenseful mystery set against the backdrop of the New Orleans French Quarter prior to Hurricane Katrina, with its jazz culture and history of 'dark' religions and cemeteries.Xav and Linc accidentally stumble upon a racket through misdirected emails and coded newspaper messages. Their investigations lead them into the dark world of cults, crypts and midnight escapades. The Neville brothers provide an unwelcome threat to thei...

Have you ever described someone as a couch potato or called a dud car a lemon? How do you think this makes a potato or lemon feel? Tiffany finds out it's not fair to the plants.But there are people who are really nasty to plants - the Topiary Twins, Nettle and Thistle. They do dastardly things. They even keep some plants captive. They are villains of the worst kind.Tiffany discovers Bindi and Dusty Thorn have a green ambulance. They care for plants that have been mistreated...

Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in, this unique atlas shows you the modern world from surprising new vantage points.Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands and even mankind's own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations. Go in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and estranged, taki...

Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in, this unique atlas explores the modern world from surprising new vantage points.Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands and even mankind's own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations. Go in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and estranged, takin...

Just before Christmas, Nellie discovers that someone has stolen everyone's hair. Children have lost their hair. All adults have lost their hair, even the police. Santa Claus has lost his hair. Everything is a disaster. Nellie makes some strange observations about an odd man on a penny-farthing and, with the aid of two rather inept detectives, is able to solve the mystery.

The Great Hair Robbery by Alan Horsfield: Just before Christmas, Nellie discovers that someone has stolen everyone's hair. Bad Eggs by Steve Wide: The bad eggs, Eggbert, Rotten, Cracked and Fried, are in town, and they're hassling Omeletta du Champignon! Who's Wheelie the Fastest? by Josie Montano: Scooter, bike, skateboard, or rollerblades...whose wheels are the fastest? A group of kids who live in the same street decide to have a 'Wheel Race' to find out. At War with the Tooth Fairies by...