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A Most Peculiar Toy Factory by Alex Bell
Category: Children's
Bestselling author Alex Bell serves up mystery and dark humour aplenty in this Roald Dahl-esque middle-grade tale of toys brought to life.Shadows of teddy bears flit across windows. Dolls whisper behind closed doors. Something has gone very wrong at Hoggle's Happy Toys. But five years after shutting its ...Show more
Explorers at Pirate Island (#5 Explorers' Club) by Alex Bell
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Explorers' Club
In their fifth thrilling adventure, the explorers journey deep into the Bubble Ocean on their quest to stop the evil Collector, but time is running out . . .The Poison Tentacle Sea was home to the powerful Bone Current. As they had feared, it gave a sudden surge and pulled them in.Half-mermaid Ursula Je ...Show more
Explorers at Stardust City (#6 Explorers' Club) by Alex Bell
Category: Children's | Series: The Explorers' Club
Directly below was a sight none of them had ever seen before - a kind of spiral, with glowing ruby-red lights that curved outwards like tentacles. In the middle was a dark circle, inky black. It had the look of a really, really deep well.Ursula and her friends are in a race against time. The Collector h ...Show more
Explorers on Black Ice Bridge (#3 Explorers' Club) by Alex Bell
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Polar Bear Explorers' Club
In the third magical Stella Starflake adventure the explorers meet gargoyles, sea-gremlins, mermaids, red devil squids - even a Gentleman Flamingo! Ice princess Stella Starflake and her father Felix are in trouble: President Fogg has expelled them from the Polar Bear Explorers' Club, and banned them fro ...Show more
Explorers on Witch Mountain (#2 Explorers' Club) by Alex Bell
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Polar Bear Explorers' Club
Stella Starflake Pearl is eagerly anticipating her next expedition. Suddenly disaster strikes when Stella's father, Felix, is snatched by a fearsome witch. Stella must bring her magic ice princess tiara to Witch Mountain or she will never see Felix again! But no one ever returns from Witch Mountain . . ...Show more
Frozen Charlotte (Red Eye) by Alex Bell
Category: Children's | Series: Red Eye Ser.
When her best friend dies under mysterious circumstances, Sophie sets off to stay with her cousins on the remote Isle of Skye. It's been years since she last saw them--brooding Cameron with his scarred hand; Piper, who seems too perfect to be real; and peculiar little Lilias with her fear of bones.Still ...Show more
Jasmyn by Alex Bell
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Gollancz S.F.
One day, without warning, Jasmyn's husband died of an aneurysm. Since then, everything has been different. Wrapped up in her grief, Jasmyn is trapped in a world without colour, without flavour - without Liam. But even through the haze of misery she begins to notice strange events. Even with Liam gone, t ...Show more
Lex Trent Fighting with Fire by Alex Bell
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Lex Trent managed to win the last Games through skill, quick-wittedness and no small amount of outright cheating. And that's exactly how he intends to win them this time round too. Particularly as he can select his own companion for these Games and won't be lumbered with tiresome and decrepit lawyer Mr ...Show more
Lex Trent Versus the Gods by Alex Bell
Category: Children's
A quirky and original comic fantasy from talented Gollancz author Alex Bell Law student Lex Trent's world is inhabited by fearsome magicians, ageing crones and a menagerie of Gods and Goddesses. And while Lex is seemingly dedicated to his legal studies he's always enjoyed a challenge -- which is why he ...Show more
Midnight Storm Moonless Sky - Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop (Illustrator); Patricia Soop (Illustrator); Jillian Bell (Editor)
Category: Horror | Series: Indigenous Horror Ser.
Blackfoot storyteller Alexander Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of Indigenous li ...Show more
Music and Malice in Hurricane Town by Alex Bell
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Jude Lomax scrapes a living playing the trumpet on the neon streets of Baton Noir. Then she is invited to play at the funeral of the infamous cajou queen, Ivory Monette. Passing through the cemetery gates, Jude finds herself possessed by the murdered queen's spirit. And Ivory won't rest until she's foun ...Show more