Books

Bettany Backhouse Blood traces the author’s family history from medieval Hungary and Norman England through to Staffordshire and, generations later, colonial New Zealand. It explores ancestry, migration, and the challenge of piecing together the lives of distant...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K4ZX413   Sam’s father is a marine scientist, part of a team testing a new submersible, ‘Tear Drop’, deep in the Southern Ocean. 15-year-old Sam, housebound back in New Zealand, is avidly following their course. He and his father are...

  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KCK1B6D Fox, Mole, Red Squirrel, Hedgehog, Badger, Otter. Written for a natural history project in England, and collected here for the author's delight. Sadly there are no photographs or diagrams due to copyright restrictions....

Philip has invented a space probe to fly up through the ozone hole. Trouble is he needs a cat as passenger. Amazingly enough none of his mates will help him out. Meanwhile Zane's bossy sister, Susy, is very concerned that old Rosie, owner of the local junk shop, is...

Didn't expect to have to perform on this page. I am waiting for the test match celebrating 100 years of rivalry between the Boks and the All Blacks. Laying on the bed, trying to levitate (no success), beginning to think about food. Perhaps a refreshing beer....

blood sample Plug staggered out from the blood clinic looking a little pale and fragile. He was quite prepared to give a blood sample for testing, for who knows what strange diseases he picked up on his recent travels? Probably nothing, for he is of upright character,...

Plug seems to have quite a lot of labels, and to his pleasure these were all given freely and without solicitation. He particularly likes 'Baby Boomer', for he boomed many a baby in his time and, delightfully, these very babies generously applied most of the labels....

poetry I lost most of my poetry in the great flood of 2009, which twists and warps me even now. Fortunately I rarely write poetry nowadays, which is a relief to all, most especially the readers of this rubbishy collection. Some poems refer to friends and enemies,...

Juvenile fiction age 10-14 years. A novella http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K4ZYTQR I didn’t like Melbourne and then I did, and this story is why....

Mr Plug has been annoying me for years, from when I was a kid at school, during my working life, in romantic situations and now, the sod, he's intruding on my dreams. I managed to get him in a headlock a couple of months back and wouldn't release him until he'd...

mybook.to/jellygame Amazon Kindle mybook.to/jellyg paperback https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/103943 Mike and the crew from PrimeLine, an Australian television show, are masters of jelly game journalism, the lower end of credible reportage. However, they are...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081JB11CF Juvenile fiction: 10-14 years. Philip has invented a cunning space probe to fly up through the ozone hole. Trouble is he needs a cat as passenger but amazingly enough none of his mates will help him out. Meanwhile Zane's...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D7K9DZ7 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/809796 smashwords ebook edition Juvenile fiction: 10-14 years. Zane can handle his weird sister; he can even handle his mortal enemies, Martin Bone and Spike, but when real trouble...

mybook.to/crackerjackmate Amazon paperback. mybook.to/crackerjack Amazon Kindle       https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/291136 smashwords ebook edition   Jack flies from London to New Zealand to find his estranged daughter, but of course that...