I didnt realize he was a werewolf at first. My nose isnt at its best when surrounded by axle grease & burnt oil.. . Mercedes Thompson runs a garage in the Tri-Cities. Shes a mechanic & a damn good one who spends her spare time karate training & tinkering with a VW bus that happens to belong to a vampire. Her next-door neighbour is an alpha werewolf
- literally the leader of the pack. & Mercy herself is a shapeshifter sister to coyotes. As such shes tolerated by the wolves but definitely down the pecking order. As long as she keeps her eyes down & remembers her place the pack will leave her in peace.
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Wrongly accused of a crime that he didn't commit teenager Wil Calloway is sentenced to join the Moon Chase to try to prove his innocence. On the face of it this sounds easy enough especially with the help of the huge Fellhounds of Thesk but as Wil learns more from the mysterious Lady Aelanor & her telepathic sister Tally he soon realises that proving his innocence is the least of his challenges
- staying alive is another! I really enjoyed Moon Chase. In fact I found it pretty much unputdownable. I cared about Wil; I wanted to know what happened next; you sustain a sense of both tension & wonder all the way through. Most importantly perhaps I want to read the next one!A Toby Faber author & former Managing Director of Faber & Faber"
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Tally has been kidnapped. Her older sister Lady Elanor has asked teenager Wil Calloway for help but he returns to Saran to discover tensions that threaten Tally's rescue from the start. Accompanied by his three best friends & three huge Fellhounds Wil makes a promise to bring Tally back before the twin moons cross. But the journey to Armelia is beset with challenges
- not least being getting in & out of the city!
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On Luna
- an open penal colony of the twenty-first century
- a revolution is being plotted. The conspirators are a strange assortment:

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Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germanys power Steinbecks fable The Moon Is Down" explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered & the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops a small peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside & betrayal from within the close-knit community. As he delves into the motivations & emotions of the enemy Steinbeck uncovers profound & often unsettling truths both about war & human nature." ...

Alan Garners exciting & atmospheric tale of magic & evil which began with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" continues with the " Moon of Gomrath". Colin & Susan are not safe from the evil Morrigan & once more find themselves back in Fundindelve with the wizard Cadellin." ...

I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea & that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. & it's why when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson part-time jazz saxophonist & full-time accountant had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. He wasn't the first. No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune so it was back to old-fashioned legwork starting in Soho the heart of the scene. I didn't trust the lovely Simone Cyrus' ex-lover professional jazz kitten & as inviting as a Rubens' portrait but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness failure & broken lives. & as I hunted them my investigation got tangled up in another story: a brilliant trumpet player Richard ' Lord' Grant
- my father
- who managed to destroy his own career twice. That's the thing about policing: most of the time you're doing it to maintain public order. Occasionally you're doing it for justice. & maybe once in a career you're doing it for revenge.

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A contemporary novel which tells the story of Marco Stanley Fogg
- orphan child of the 1960s
- spanning three generations. The

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Scottish schoolboy Stevie befriends pretty Chinese classmate Maisie when some children tease her & takes her to his riverside camp in Peebles. When she falls into the river he rescues her emerging in mythological China as White Tiger. With Maisie or Hua-Mei (Pretty Flower) he learns he has to accomplish a dangerous mission before they can get back to Peebles. He soon discovers success depends on a balance between his courage & the girls charm. They encounter hungry ghosts a miserable blue dragon & many other colourful mythological Chinese beasts & characters.. .but when they finally meet the mysterious Moon Rabbit the one who knows everything their return to Peebles seems further away than ever.. . Moon Rabbit an engaging beautifully illustrated Yin Yang fantasy tale of friendship between two children from different cultures also introduces the western child to many aspects of daily life in China. ...

Claudia Hampton a beautiful famous writer lies dying in hospital. But as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension she is plotting her greatest work: a history of the world & in the process my own'. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life & times conjuring up those she has known. There is Gordon her adored brother; Jasper the charming untrustworthy lover & father of Lisa her cool conventional daughter; & Tom her one great love both found & lost in wartime Egypt. Penelope Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of memories flashbacks & shifting voices in a haunting story of loss & desire. ...