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"Artists are Crazy" and Other Stories by Ken Catran
Category: Fiction | Series: Truth Behind History S.
In eight wry and brilliant short stories, Ken Catran gives us the real ‘truth’ behind some of history’s great moments – from Leonardo Da Vinci’s inventions to why the Egyptians worshipped cats.
Bloody Liggie by Ken Catran
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Young Adult Fiction Ser.
Liggie Tanner, with an axe, Gave her step-mum forty whacks. When she saw what she had done . . . "Bloody" Liggie, the media labelled her. She was locked away but broke out and drowned crossing a river. So . . . was this the end of Liggie? Two years on, there's a new girl in class. Cool and closed . . . ...Show more
Blue Blood by Ken Catran
Category: unmapped
A sequel to the chilling thrillers, Talking to Blue and Blue Murder, Blue Blood takes up the story from the point of view of Mike?s long-suffering girlfriend Sheril. At the end of Blue Murder, Sheril doped Mike on a beach and the tide took him out. His body was never found. A month later, the police hav ...Show more
Blue Murder by Ken Catran
Category: Fiction
If you read Talking to Blue you'll remember Mike has been arrested after a spate of serial murders, dubbed the Blue killings because all the victims wore something blue. Mike got involved when Blue talked to him on his cellphone. In this sequel, Blue kills again, so Mike is released. But he hasn't fini ...Show more
Dead Harry by Ken Catran
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Sam's best friend Harry is working on a school assignment about refugees from the Balkans, and comes across a photo of the school caretaker as a war criminal. The next thing he knows, Harry is dead and has returned as a ghost to help Sam solve the mystery of his murder. The boys, with the help of the cl ...Show more
Earth Dragon, Fire Hare by Ken Catran
Category: TEENAGE/YOUNG ADULT FICTION
The conflict in Malaysia during and after World War Two, as seen from the perspectives of a Kiwi soldier (Peter) and a Chinese Malay freedom fighter (Ng). Against a background of culture clash and political and individual conflicts, two young men are drawn inexorably together as victims and products of ...Show more
Fries by Ken Catran
Category: Children's
Reading age 10 to 13 yrs. "Fries" is the story of a very small town with a small school, a small hotel and a general store. The major source of the town's economy is the Fries Factory and when its sale or closure is threatened, strange things begin to happen.
Jacko Moran Sniper by Ken Catran
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
"Gallipoli was the first good thing that happened to me." World War I turned Jacko Moran from a sullen, street-fighting slum kid, with a brutal alcoholic father, into a fearless soldier, a decorated war hero and a man who commanded the utmost respect. "They were the only four years I really lived," Jac ...Show more
Jimmy Moran, Regular (OUT OF PRINT) by Ken Catran
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
Jimmy Moran
Letters from the Coffin Trenches by Ken Catran
Category: Fiction
Love letters on eve of Gallipoli. From best selling award winning author. ++ Finalist, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards (Senior Fiction Section), 2003 ++
Nina of the Dark (#1) by Ken Catran
Category: Children's
Against the forces of evil and night, who will stand true? Slave-born, fated to seek a terrible truth from lost centuries, her only allies are a thief, a giant and an ancient prophecy. Together, they must seek answers to shrouded mysteries and resolve the fate of their world...but first they must surviv ...Show more
Odysseus by Ken Catran
Category: Fiction | Series: Young Adult S.
Odysseusâ voyages are known throughout the land; poets recite his dangerous and heroic adventures. But what really happenedT Told by Odysseus himself, we discover the real stories.