New Releases by Nicholas Walker

Samantha is thrown out of dance school and told she will never dance again…and dancing is her whole life. Then she meets 14 year old Alex who is an ice dancer and secretly they start skating together. Can Samantha hide her obsession from her parents? Will they even stay as partners when his attitude is so casual? Will their tempestuous relationship tear them apart before they ever get to perform? This gripping novel by best seller Nicholas Walker tears the top of the ice skating world and reveals all the agony and heartbreak that lies underneath.

Un roman dystopien de Sc Fi au rythme très rapide, écrit par un auteur à succès. Se déroulant dans le futur, l'humanité s'est presque détruite dans des guerres nucléaires donnant au Kraal (Sasquatch et le Yéti) une chance de prendre le contrôle du monde. L'humanité est réduite en esclavage et forcée de travailler pour le Kraal jusqu'à ce qu'une bande d'enfants, dirigée par Jessica, s'échappe et riposte. Jessica est une dirigeante extraordinaire qui déteste tellement les Kraal qu'elle hurle quand elle les combat ! Son commandant en second, Tom, est calme et sérieux...

This is the follow up to The Ice Mountain when Benjamin and Belinda first skated together before they were World Champions in the Crackling Ice series. The two are working towards their first serious competition but the tremendous workload starts to impact on their schoolwork and both are threatened with suspension. But even more of a problem arises as they are becoming more and more fond of one another and this leads to jealousies between them and after an argument Belinda goes with Benjamin's best friend to the school disco. Benjamin retaliates by taking Belinda's friend and they have a massive fight and agree to look for new partners after the competition. Then Benjamin has a bad fall and is unable to skate and Belinda starts dancing with another boy.Can they bring it all together before the competition or will they split up forever? This exciting novels rips aside the glamour of the Ice Dancing world and reveals all the hard work and tears and the tremendous pressures these children live under every day of their lives!

Escrita por un autor de superventas, esta es la hilarante historia de cómo éste tuvo un colapso nervioso y huyó por el mundo en el QE2. Increíble pero absolutamente verídico, el sensible estado mental del autor le da un enfoque diferente a un viaje alrededor del mundo y los millonarios con los que se mezcla. Un libro de viajes verdaderamente diferente que te hará reír en cada página. Esta es la historia real de cómo el autor curó un colapso nervioso tomando un crucero por el mundo en el Queen Elizabeth ll. Es una mirada al lujoso estilo de vida de los muy ricos desde el punto de vista algo sardónico de alguien que no está del todo cuerdo. Visitamos 40 países y cada uno recibe las observaciones del autor, que casi siempre son humorísticas y están escritas por alguien que tiene un estado mental frágil que hace que arroje al viento toda posible cautela. Pero más que eso, Nick no es un viajero convencional: es arrestado en Nueva York y sometido a una íntima inspección corporal, lucha contra tres asaltantes armados en Jamaica, se pelea con oficiales de aduana australianos, tiene un accidente de moto en Bali, es atacado por dos ancianos en el Taj Mahal y es vetado de Vietnam. Sin embargo, el libro trata más sobre su vida a bordo del QE2: sus aventuras amorosas, su creciente relación con el personal y su estilo de vida íntimo y cerrado, el desastroso concierto del personal que termina en una pelea total, los excesos de los pasajeros súper ricos y las estrafalarias situaciones que solo ocurren a bordo, como la noche en que queda atrapado en la pista de baile con las tres mujeres con las que ha estado saliendo. En general, es la historia de un hombre y su regreso a la cordura hasta que finalmente es depositado nuevamente en el muelle de Southampton, donde su aventura comenzó, solo ahora que no tiene un céntimo y le acaban de informar que todo lo que poseía en el mundo había sido arrojado por la borda al océano. La hilarante continuación está aho

The third in the best-selling series about Alex and Samantha the trouble prone Ice Dancers. Samantha and Alex now have an American trainer, Walt Danvers, who is priming them for stardom - or is he? Nothing is ever quite as it seems. Plotting is rife and somebody doesn't want Samantha and Alex to skate successfully in the British Championships. These thrilling novels rip the top off the world of Ice Skating and reveal the passions, the heartbreak and the skulduggery that go on in the professional world.

Best-selling gripping novel about a boy and a girl who do karate. William goes to a new school where he falls foul of the classroom idiot, the beautiful but barmy Jaimey. She does karate but it turns out so does William who is already a black belt and a champion. Their sparring goes on at school as well as in the club. Written by a best-selling author who is himself Chief Instructor of a martial arts organisation this is the novel that sold all around the world. Now in a new edit it is being re-released on Amazon!

Written by a bestselling author this is the hilarious story of him having a nervous breakdown and running away around the world on the QE2! Unbelievable but absolutely true the author’s sensitive mental state gives him a different slant on world travel and the millionaires he mixes with. A truly different travel book which will have you laughing on every page. This is the true story of how the author cured a nervous breakdown by taking a world cruise on The Queen Elizabeth ll. It is a peep into the luxury lifestyle of the very rich from the somewhat sardonic viewpoint of someone who is not quite sane. We visit 40 countries and each one is treated to the author’s observations which are nearly always humorous and written by someone who’s fragile mental state causes him to throw all caution to the winds. But more than that, Nick isn’t your conventional world traveller: he gets arrested in New York and undergoes an intimate body search, he fights off three armed muggers in Jamaica, falls out with Australian customs officers, has a motor bike accident in Bali, is attacked by two old men in The Taj Mahal and is thrown out of Vietnam. The book, though, is more about his life aboard the QE2: his love affairs, his growing relationship with the staff and their intimate, closeted lifestyle, the disastrous staff concert that ends up in an all-out fight, the excesses of the super-rich passengers and the bizarre situations that only happen aboard such as the night where he is trapped on the dance floor with the three women he has been dating. All in all it is the story of a man making his way back to sanity until he is finally deposited back on the quay at Southampton where he started only now he is penniless and has just been informed that everything he owns in the world has been thrown overboard into the sea. The hilarious follow up is now available: Not Quite Sane in America, where Nick runs away to America to avoid his proctologist!

Vega! Vegas! Vegas! is the follow up to Kiss Mommy Goodbye which is about the rock superstar Peter Webb and the seven abused children he adopts. In this novel the children have all become one family and even though they all still suffer from huge problems they all meet them as one! Peter takes on a massive gig at the Bellagio in Vegas and takes his whole family along with him as well as his famous movie star girlfriend, Roberta Capone. The children are all loving their time in Vegas attending Peter's concerts every evening to watch him a Getz stun the crowds and in the day time exploring the hotels of Vegas in their own particular manner. When Getz falls for the owner of the new Rock and Roll hotel they all disapprove but she insists on seeing him. Then Getz is raped and all the children unite to keep Peter from finding out and to get their revenge on Vince Martin. How they conspire to drive him completely out of business all the time protecting their explosive father from finding out makes for a high powered action packed side story to saga of the Webb family! As always with these novels Vegas is full of drama and trauma with high powered moments of humour when the lives of the super famous and super rich come into contact with a rough crowd of children from all over the world!

A very fast paced Sc Fi novel by a best-selling author. The follow up to: Children of the Kraal. This funny, tragic and action packed novel begins a year after the loss of Jessica and now Tom is leading the band of guerrillas. Tom has become a great leader but he still carries the burden of the death of Jessica on his shoulders and has become hard and cold. The band is maturing and the boys and girls are wanting to take their relationships further and a number of them pair leading to all the complications of sexual intrigue within the group. They are getting better at fighting the Kraal using new weapons and tactics but the Kraal have also developed more weapons to set against them: Stingers and Giggle Hooks! The Vadors through ferocity and courage manage to hold on and more and more children escape to join them. Then from one of the new recruits Tom learns about a girl who is imprisoned in a solitary cave by the Kraal who no other human is allowed to see. A girl who hates the Kraal so much that she screams when she sees them...The novel is full of action but concentrates more on the personalities of the children who have to learn to form a society without the guidance of adults, how to organize, to establish discipline and all the problems of relationships and sex. A heart-warming novel with many nail biting scenes and some very tragic moments.

Barnaby Cole's passion is detective stories and Barnaby wants to be a detective but the problem is he's not very good at it and all the other children in school make fun of him. There's more important things going on at school though because the children all want to earn some money to send Geoff away on a gymnastic course. Rallied by the incredible Jessica they all put on a fete that raises much more than they intended and they are left with the problem of what to do with the extra money. But someone is stealing lunches from the locker room and Barnaby bets everybody he will find the culprit. But he's still not very good at it: he gets locked in his own locker, he has his own lunch stolen and finally covers the Headmistress with soot! This charming novel is written by a bestselling author and will have you laughing all the way through.

A very fast paced Sc Fi, dystopian novel by a bestselling author. Set in the future mankind has nearly destroyed itself in nuclear wars giving the Kraal (Sasquatch and The Yeti) chance to take over the world. Mankind is enslaved and forced to work for the Kraal until a band of children, led by Jessica, escape and fight back. Jessica is an amazing leader who hates the Kraal so much that she screams when she fights them! Her second in command, Tom, is quiet and serious and a foil for the other girls in the band. The novel is packed with action but concentrates more on the personalities of the children who have to learn to form a society without the guidance of adults, how to organize, to establish discipline and all the problems of relationships and sex. A heartwarming novel with many nail biting scenes and some very tragic moments. There are 3 follow up to this novel: Kingdom of the Kraal. Revenge of the Kraal. Return of the Kraal.

Daniel, who is already nine, is awakened by a fat and very strange cat in his bedroom. The cat's name is Gerzergerblad and the reason Daniel knows this is because Gerzergerblad can talk, he is after all a very strange cat. Gerzergerblad has been sent to fetch Daniel because his help is needed and Daniel is introduced to the very strange world below ground where the strange creatures live who make the world work: Workhorses, Footballs, Yards, Tyson the boxer, Mrs Throttle the cook...and The Incidences who have gone on strike!Led everywhere by Gerzergerblad who is not only fat, but greedy, selfish and a total coward, Daniel is led through a series of very strange adventures: he is squashed flat by a Football, Squeezed by a Bearhug, told off by Nosey Parker and chased by Ringpulls.This charming and hilarious little novel was written by a bestselling author who got bored reading to his own children and decided to write a book that would entertain both the adults reading it aloud as well as the children listening.

Written by a bestselling author this enormously gripping novel is set Jersey, during World War Two, when The Channel Islands were occupied by Germany. It is very much based on fact: All the buildings, streets, munitions and army terms are accurate, and all the incidents that take place in the novel are taken from incidents that actually happened during the war. After the first year of occupation the only resistance to the Germans came from the children of the island, indeed at one time the schools had to close because virtually all the teenage boys were locked up in the local prison…this is the basis for the story. There are four main characters in the story, Rex, Sue, David and Marianne. The first three are old friends, David and Sue are twins and Rex is their leader and Sue has a crush on Rex. Sue is very outspoken while David is a quiet follower of the others. Rex is the driving force, he leads the children of Jersey and is very brave, enjoying dangerous confrontations with the Germans. Marianne is the good girl of the school and very much a loner, she always obeys the teachers and the Germans and Rex finds himself having to act as her protector from the other children when they begin to view her as a traitor. One night Rex finds out that Marianne is hiding a family of Jews in the hills and brings in the other two to help her. To their astonishment, the girl who spends her nights working in her father’s hotel: Dancing With The Enemy, is her own one-woman resistance group, receiving orders from Britain. Sue is wildly jealous of Marianne’s growing relationship with Rex but is forced to subdue it when they join forces. Rex’s group, who, up till then, had merely crept around painting Victory Vs everywhere, now find themselves involved in a much more dangerous business: Smuggling fugitives, disarming mines and spying. Marianne saves Sue when she falls into a Gestapo trap, then she and Rex are trapped themselves and Rex saves Marianne’s life and in the process learns she is herself a Jewess and has spent some time in a concentration camp. Marianne gradually shows them how to fight the Germans and Rex begins to understand the commitment needed: When he asks her if she sleeps with the Germans, she tells him no but she will if it becomes necessary! A high-ranking American officer crash lands on the island and the children have to hide him. the Germans take hostages, amongst them Rex and David, and promise to shoot them if the officer is not handed over. The novel is full of action and emotion, but the story is about the realities of war: The sacrifices that have to be made. But it is not a sad book, it is full of the humour that dangerous situations bring and the accelerated relationships that take place in time of war. The book ends on an upbeat note, leaving the way clear for a series of follow up novels.

This is the hilarious follow up to Going Around the Bend on the QE2 (available on Kindle/Google+) where Nick now runs away to America to escape his proctologist. He is welcomed by the American people and delighted to find that they love his accent. As always the outspoken Nick, runs into many situations some of which would seem to be unbelievable, but they are true: he meets a number of Hollywood Stars and has a flaming row with one of them, he is interrogated by the FBI, lives with a top model, has a fight with a mobster and sadly witnesses the American's reaction to 9/11! He falls out with the police and falls in with three lovely ladies as he lives as an illegal immigrant for two years in one of America's loveliest towns, Laguna Beach CA. This is the travelogue of a man who is trouble prone and who is lucky enough to encounter hilarious situations wherever he goes...it is, as always, the story of a man who is not quite sane!

Continues the story of international skaters Samantha and Alex (from SKATING ON THE EDGE, CRACKLING ICE, AND TOUCH OF THE ICE) whose relationship disintegrates as they compete in the Winter Olympics

In the sequel to Ice Dancing, Samantha and Alex are determined to win the championship, despite the interference of her parents and the fact that she has not been feeling well lately. Original.