While vacationing with relatives in Auckland, twins Theo and Rachel discover that they are endowed with special powers to oppose mysterious giant creatures that are determined to destroy the world.
'King,' they said, trying out the word, 'Osro is King. 'Now, stand up,' Osro said. 'Take me to Susan's door. You are my hands and I am your head. Soon O will be ours.' For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving the magical land of O, the scene of The Halfmen of O...
A hundred turns have passed since Susan Ferris joined the Halves and ended the rule of the Halfmen of O, Otis Claw and Otis Cling. But Humankind has chosen evil a second time. O is now in the hands of the priests of Ferris who use Susan's name to terrorize the world. A prophecy among the Stonefol...
Grief was like a drug, shutting them down. When Ben woke he climbed down the broken wall for shellfish. Hana opened her eyes to find him eating. He pushed mussels towards her with his foot. ‘I never thought they’d beat him,’ he said. ‘Nor did I,’ Hana whispered. ‘He’s too strong. So . . .’ He cut...
The bear in front flickered in the shadows, white and blue. He rippled like flowing water, and the pad pad of his feet was the only sound. Nick and Susan, Dawn and Limpy, followed silently. They had set out in the dawn, leaving the wounded Varg by the river. The bear who l...
She had expected buildings with fantastic shapes, but everything was simple and unadorned. Small houses with timber walls lined the streets. Beyond them the sea gleamed. Half a dozen wooden boats, big enough for two or three people, were drawn up on a white-sand beach between low headlands. Their...
Tealeaf, the Dweller, with her three-fingered hands and cat-pupilled eyes, had been Pearl’s maid in the city, in the days when Company had ruled. She had opened Pearl out like folded paper and allowed the child to become a woman, writing her own story on herself, instead of the pretty painted obj...