Synopsis: When Sloe was tiny, her Papa disappeared and she and her mama went to live in a prison camp in the snowy north, in a time and place when there are no more wild animals. Mama’s crime: teaching science, and her dedication to the hope that the lost animal species can be reborn. To Sloe, Ma...
A light and fluffy read with no mention of sex, just a faint whiff of drugs (but certainly not for recreational purposes) and a complete absence of rock 'n' roll.I once read that the books of Charles Dickens are characterised by having happy endings (ok, I might have generalised a little too much...
Although my retelling may seem very different from the well-known version (about a hero, a monster, and a helpless princess), I took a lot of my ideas from the ancient sources, and from the ancient history of the Mediterranean. It’s true that alphabetic writing seems to have been brought to the A...
Franklin's Island chapter threeOn the second morning, we thought we heard a plane. We scrambled out from under the overhang and ran about looking at the sky. There wasn’t a sign of anything moving, except for a few seabirds over the outer reef, but we were full of hope. We tipped out the rucksack...