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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.

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!

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!

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.

Écrit par un auteur à succès, voici l''histoire hilarante de sa dépression et de sa fuite autour du monde sur le QE2 ! Histoire incroyable mais véridique, l''état mental fragile de l''auteur lui donne une perspective différente sur les voyages et les millionnaires qu''il côtoie. Un livre de voyage vraiment différent qui vous fera rire à chaque page. C''est l''histoire vraie de la guérison d''une dépression nerveuse par une croisière autour du monde à bord du Queen Elizabeth II. C''est un aperçu du style de vie luxueux des très riches, vu du point de vue quelque peu sardonique de quelqu''un qui n''est pas tout à fait sain d''esprit. Nous visitons 40 pays et chacun est traité avec les observations de l''auteur, qui sont presque toujours humoristiques et écrites par quelqu''un dont l''état mental fragile le pousse à jeter toute prudence aux vents. Mais plus encore, Nick n''est pas un voyageur conventionnel : il se fait arrêter à New York et subit une fouille corporelle intime, il repousse trois agresseurs armés en Jamaïque, se dispute avec les douaniers australiens, a un accident de moto à Bali, est attaqué par deux vieillards au Taj Mahal et est expulsé du Vietnam. Cependant, le livre parle surtout de sa vie à bord du QE2 : ses histoires d''amour, sa relation croissante avec le personnel et leur mode de vie intime et cloisonné, le concert désastreux du personnel qui se termine en bagarre générale, les excès des passagers ultra-riches et les situations bizarres qui n''arrivent que dans ce genre d''endroit, comme la nuit où il est piégé sur la piste de danse avec les trois femmes qu''il fréquente. En somme, c''est l''histoire d''un homme retrouvant sa santé mentale jusqu''à ce qu''il soit finalement déposé sur le quai à Southampton où il a commencé, mais cette fois-ci, il est sans le sou et vient d''apprendre que tout ce qu''il possède au monde a été jeté par-dessus bord dans la mer. La suite hilarante est maintenant disponible sur Kindle en ver

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

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...

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.

The thrilling story of the four paranoid Ice Dancers continues in this the eighth novel in the Crackling Ice series. The four dancers are growing up and all the pressures and passions of adulthood are playing havoc with their ambitions. Then suddenly it is Olympic year and there is an internal struggle in the designated country and the Winter Olympics are sent to the UK...who will be the pair who win the Gold Medal in the first ever British Winter Olympics? Will Samantha even be allowed to compete? Belinda has a life changing experience and suddenly it seems that there won''t be any British skaters competing at all! These exciting novels rip the top off the Ice Skating world and look underneath the glamour to all the heartbreak and passion and hard work and laughter below!

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

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.

A story of first love by a bestselling author who himself worked on a holiday camp for three years in his teens. When Dee gets a job at a holiday camp to help pay for her degree at the Sorbonne she intends to work hard and to save hard but she comes into contact with the base player of the band, the last person on Earth that she is ever likely to get mixed up with. But the uneducated Sebastian won''t leave Dee alone even though she has a secret that could cost her her job as well as her life! Urged on by the much more worldly wise Shelley, Dee and Sebastian begin on a passionate affair that has vast consequences for both of them especially when Dee''s parents come to stay.This fast paced love story brings the reader into the fun and life of a holiday camp and explores the passions of those first love affairs.

A very fast paced dystopian novel by a best-selling author. The follow up to: Children of the Kraal and Kingdom of the Kraal. This funny, tragic and action packed novel is the third in this thrilling series set in a world where the humans have been enslaved by the Kraal and the only resistance is from the Vadors the rebel band of children. Jessica has now been freed but having two leaders leads to tensions between her and Tom which is made even more difficult by their growing love affair. Kimba is a prisoner of the Kraal and is locked away in the mines parted from Mac who has turned traitor. The band is getting bigger almost daily and the Vadors seem to be winning against the Kraal but the Kraal are about to launch a major fight back. A world filled with brave warrior children and Kraal monsters and Stingers and Giggle Hooks and Molten Scobies! But also filled with humour and love affairs and laughter and A & R''s potent Apple Ale!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.

Four delightful short stories for the younger reader by a bestselling author. Gordon the Nervous Ghost: meet Gordon who haunts a school although he''s not very good at it because he''s scared of the children, but it''s with the children''s help that Gordon finally learns to haunt properly. Obo the Space Animal: meet Obo who lives on a space station but nobody has any use for him until Sam teaches him to play football. Roland the Short Giant: meet Roland who everybody laughs at because he is so short until he meets Obadiah who shoots him in the stomach with an arrow and Monty who teaches him to fight. Tick, Tock and Toby: meet Tick and Toby but not Tock because Tock has gone missing so the clock no longer works properly.