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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...

While watching intense flashes of lightning during a violent storm, Ben experiences mysterious and disturbing visions of another world, one very different from his own. In the chain of events that follow, Ben encounters Charlie, a girl from a dark version of Earth, a planet doomed by the effects of environmental catastrophe, where the leaders will stop at nothing to complete their deadly mission.The Shadowzone Series of science fiction and fantasy novels involves the discovery of a...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ultimate guide to history's greatest ever investorsSuperinvestors lays bare the investing secrets of legendary investors – from early 20th-century figures such as Benjamin Graham and John Maynard Keynes, through to more modern names such as Anthony Bolton and Warren Buffett.The investors have been picked for a variety of criteria, including their investing excellence, the different ways in which they have made money – and above all for what they...

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...