Cy has the ability to control his own dreams & knows his own, personal Dream Master. But sometimes Cy's own imagination is so strong that he can run his own dream. Or so he thinks. For there's plenty of mishap & adventure ahead when Cy & the Dream Master travel back to Pompeii
- on the eve of the eruption of Vesuvius. Not only does the Dream Master have to face a lion in the gladiatorial ring, but Cy must rescue him
- & drive a chariot to escape from the volanic lava & dust... The third in a fantastic fantasy series.

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From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories & events that make a man. These powerfully vivid stories by a grate writer range over more than a century of Australian life, from green tropical lushness to 'blacksoil country', from scrub & outback to city streets-evoking dark shadows beneath a bright sun, & lives shaped by the ghosts of history & the rhythms of unruly nature. ...

Young academic Catherine de la Tour is not content. Her lover James is a thousand miles away & she needs to get a grip on her work, her man & her life. When she accepts a post as artist-in residence at Cambridge she thinks it'll be just the break she needs. But once there she soon gets involved inthe wold sex lives of both male & female students. ...

24-year-old Ahlème (her name means 'dream' in Arabic) lives with her father, The Boss. He is half the man he was, since an accident on his building site stopped him working. Then there's Ahlème's brother, 16-year-old Foued, excluded from school & getting drawn into the world of drug-dealing on Uprising Estate. Ahlème battles with her family, the struggles & queues that come with being an immigrant, & the guilt-trips of distant relatives 'back home'. But when she returns
- after a ten-year absence
- to the country where her mother was massacred at a village wedding, she brokers a kind of truce, both with her homel&, & with the need to forge a future. Along the way, she stamps on that mythical version of Metropolitan France, a desperate fabrication put out by economic & political migrants & readily bought into by those left behind in Algeria.

Dreams from the Endz is an extraordinary achievement: outspoken & sobering but
- crucially
- laced with the author's hallmark wit. Faiza Guene illuminates the impact of politics on everyday lives, acting as the nation's eyes & ears in places many would never dare to go, weaving unforgettable tales across barriers.





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The author's first book, ' The First Three Minutes', was about the earliest moments of the universe. This book looks at the smallest & most elusive things making up that universe. It relates the story of this search, specifically the development of the Superconducting Supercollider. ...