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Blame by Simon Mayo
Category: Children's
What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed? That's the situation in which Ant finds herself - together with her little brother Mattie and their foster-parents, she's locked up in a new kind of family prison. None of the inmates are themselves criminals, bu ...Show more
Itch by Simon Mayo
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Meet Itch - an accidental, accident-prone hero. Science is his weapon. Elements are his gadgets. This is Alex Rider with Geek-Power! Itchingham Lofte - known as Itch - is fourteen, and loves science - especially chemistry. He's also an element-hunter: he's decided to collect all the elements in the peri ...Show more
Itch (#1) by Simon Mayo
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Itch
"A great debut. You'll be itching to read more.' Anthony Horowitz Meet Itch - an accidental, accident-prone hero. Science is his weapon. Elements are his gadgets. All-action adventure perfect for fans of Alex Rider and Young Bond. Itchingham Lofte - known as Itch - is fourteen, and loves science, especi ...Show more
Itch Rocks (#2) by Simon Mayo
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Itch
After almost poisoning his whole class with arsenic gas, going on the run from a psychotic science teacher and nearly dying of radiation poisoning, life is getting back to normal for Itchingham Lofte - at least, as normal as it can be when you have a round-the-clock detail of government security guards ...Show more
Itchcraft (Itch #3) by Simon Mayo
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Itch
Exploding euros and exciting elements - join Itch, Jack and Chloe on their latest adventure.Itchingham Lofte, teenage element hunter and unlikely hero, has had anough excitement to last him a lifetime. Stumbling across an unknown radioactive element and trying to keep it out of the hands of those who wa ...Show more
Knife Edge by Simon Mayo
Category: Crime and Thrillers
You never know where danger may come from... 6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered. In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women across London have been targeted. For journalist Famie Madden, the horror unfolds as she arrives for th ...Show more
Knife Edge: the gripping Sunday Times bestseller by Simon Mayo
Category: Crime
From one of our best-loved radio presenters comes a race-against-time, ST top ten bestselling thriller, chillingly resonant with today's headlines.'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ... Perfect." LEE CHILDYou never know where danger m ...Show more
Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo
Category: Fiction
1815- The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace - like home - is still a long way away.On the eve of the year 1815, the American sailors of the Eagle finally arrive at Dartmoor prison; bedraggled, exhausted but burning with hope. They?ve only had one thing to sustain them - a snatche ...Show more
The Movie Doctors by Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo
Category: Film
Need an alternative to counting sheep? Try The Piano. Tinnitus driving you up the wall? Interstellar can help. Stressed and anxious? The Big Lebowski is what you need. Mayo and Kermode also take their scalpel to 'sick' movies, dissecting the perils of excessive length, the ill effects of glowing praise ...Show more
Tick Tock by Simon Mayo
Category: Crime and Thrillers
If you can hear it, your time is running out. Teacher Kit Chaplin can't understand why some students at his north London school are experiencing an extreme ticking noise in their ears. Perhaps it's just a severe form of tinnitus? But only days later, it spreads to more students - and starts leaving bod ...Show more
Tick Tock by Simon Mayo
Category: FICTION
Frighteningly contemporary, utterly compelling, Tick Tock is the stunning new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Knife EdgeIt starts quietly enough. A tick tick ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse - and then you pass it on. ...Show more
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