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Relics, Wrecks and Ruins by Aiki Flinthart (Editor); Angela Slatter; Kylie Chan; Alison Goodman; Mark Lawrence; James (SA) Corey; David Farland; Jack Dann; Lee Murray; Cat Sparks; Ian Irvine; Neil Gaiman; Dirk Flinthart; Jan-Andrew (JA) Henderson; Pamela Jeffs; Sebastien de Castell; Marianne de Pierres; Jasper Fforde; Ken Liu; Garth Nix; Robert Silverberg; Mary Robinette Kowal; Kate Forsyth; Juliet Marillier
Category: Science Fiction
Futures and Pasts, Fearless and Frightening.This is a must-read collection for all fans of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. A celebration of legacy and endurance.- Bizarre remains of a lost civilisation emerge from the ice. - The ghosts of a drowned town wait to be awakened. - A witch with a dragon problem. ...Show more
Riding Tycho by Jan Mark
Category: Children's
Demetria has never questioned her harsh life on High Island. The endless rules, merciless bullying and the scream of the Banshee announcing another doomed escape across the sea, are all she has ever known. But then she meets political prisoner Ianto Morgan, who tells her about a strange and distant worl ...Show more
Robin Hood All at Sea (RA 7 IA 7-12) by Jan Mark
Category: Children's | Series: 4u2read
Robin Hood's not content with being No. 1 Most Wanted man in Sherwood. So he decides to become a fisherman! But soon realises it won't be as easy as he thought - How will the famous Robin Hood cope with pirates, sea sickness and grumpy sailors? Fun comedy.
Something in the Air by Jan Mark
Category: Fiction
A beautifully wrought novel about a young girl's life in 1920s England. Peggy is a fifteen-year-old rather at odds with the world around her. Her older sister berates her constantly for being messy. Her teachers reprimand her for being unladylike. Her best friend has stopped talking to her, because ...Show more
Strat and Chatto by Jan Mark
Category: Picture Books
This is a brilliantly comic tale by a multi-award-winning author.Chatto's a cat with a mouse problem. Strat's a rat with a house problem. But with friends in places high and low and a devious plan all of his own, Strat has the solution to both these problems. All he needs are a few bats, cockroaches, si ...Show more
Stratford Boys by Jan Mark
Category: Fiction
Will has never put pen to paper. But the good people of Stratford require a play and with his pal Adrian Croft he finds himself responsible for putting one on the stage. Together they manage to assemble an unlikely company of amateurs and Will hears the sound of applause for the first time.
Taking the Cat's Way Home by Jan Mark
Category: Fiction | Series: Sprinters S.
Jane has a cat called Furlong, who walks to school with her every day. When William, the new boy, causes a division in the class and threatens Jane with violence, it seems the only way she can escape is to take Furlong's secret path home, along the wall and into the unknown.
The Anthropocene - A Multidisciplinary Approach by Mark Williams; Jan Zalasiewicz; Julia Adeney Thomas
Category: Animals & Nature
Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this co ...Show more
The Eclipse of the Century by Jan Mark
Category: Fiction | Series: Point - nurses
A young man has a near-death experience and, as many do, he finds himself in a long tunnel. At first he thinks he is in heaven, but he is soon greeted by strangers who say he must meet them under a black sun in a place called Qantoum.
The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections by Jan Mark
Category: Children's
Offers coverage that ranges from the history of museums, to the very meaning of the word 'museum'. This title muses on the Muses and the word museum, on why and how people collect things, on different kinds of museums (cabinets, buildings, villages, towns), on their contribution to science and on the no ...Show more