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Legendeer Trilogy by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's
SHADOW OF THE MINOTAUR, VAMPYR LEGION and WARRIORS OF THE RAVEN are computer games that open the gateway between our own world and the realm of myth and legend, with heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes, triumphs and tragedies. Over the course of three exhilarating novels, our hero Phoen ...Show more
Night Hunger by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's Fiction
...one bit of me is the guy in the top set at school getting ready for his GCSEs. The other part belongs to the dark, dark night. It wants to go hunting."
Raining Fire by Alan Gibbons
Category: Young Adult
Alex and Ethan are brothers, growing up on an estate where there are just two choices: sport or crime. Ethan is a promising footballer, and when he is selected to go on a training programme in the US, he feels sure that he has found his chance to escape the gangs that dominate his streets. But as life s ...Show more
Raining Fire by Alan Gibbons
Category: Fiction
The gun is the coward's fist. The gun is power. Alex and Ethan are growing up on an estate where there are just two choices: sport or crime. Ethan is selected for a football training programme in the US, his chance to escape the gangs that terrorise his neighbourhood. But Alex is drawn into an explosive ...Show more
Renegade by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's | Series: Hell's Underground: 3
Paul has met his most audacious - and powerful - ancestor yet, Samuel Rector, who seemingly has the entire East End in thrall to him in the 1830s. His legion of 'rat boys' use terror and menace ordinarily, but with the demon seed inside them, their powers know no end. Their only match is Paul, the reneg ...Show more
Scared to Death by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's
Late one night after a strange tube journey to Whitechapel in East London, Paul makes a new friend, John Reaper - daring and enigmatic, just as Paul longs to be, away from his cloying mother (his only family - so he thinks). Redman charms Paul at once, but also a girl called Jude they meet on a night ab ...Show more
Shadow of the Minotaur (Legendeer Trilogy #1) by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's fantasy | Series: Legendeer
'Real life' or the death defying adventures of the Greek myths, with their heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes - which would you choose? For Phoenix it's easy. He hates his new home and the new school where he is bullied. He's embarrassed by his computer geek dad. But when he logs on to ...Show more
Street Corner Dad by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's
Family drama set during World War II. It's the height of World War II. Jimmy and his sister Molly are a couple of the only kids to have not been evacuated to the countryside and with no school to speak of, they lead fairly carefree lives despite the war raging around them. But tragedy strikes when their ...Show more
Super Sub by Alan Gibbons
Category: Junior Fiction
Alan Gibbons returns with an action-packed football story accompanied by fascinating facts and historical detail about famous substitutes.
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore; Brian Bolland (Cover Design by); Dave Gibbons (Artist); Curt Swann (Artist)
Category: Graphic Novels
An unforgettable trade paperback collection of WATCHMEN writer Alan Moore's definitive Superman tales that is sure to appeal of readers of his BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE graphic novel. Moore teams with Curt Swan, the definitive Superman artist from the 1950's through the 1970's, to tell the final adventur ...Show more
The Beautiful Game by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's
At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the hu ...Show more
The Cold Heart of Summer (RA 8+ IA 13+) by Alan Gibbons
Category: Children's
Fantastically creepy ghost story from a top author. When her dad begins restoring the old Sexton house, Debbie begins to wonder whether a house really can be evil. The stories of mystery and murder that haunt the house's past start to become a reality - can Debbie convince her dad that they're in dang ...Show more