MONDAYS ARE RED is back! It’s now available in a new ebook edition with extra material! Click Read More below and you’ll find lots of details, reviews, a video trailer and a link to the blog tour, where I provided loads of varied information about synaesthesia, writing tips and other things about being a writer.
A highly original and mind-altering novel about luck, chance, risk, fate, danger, passion, hate, alcohol, music, and why leaving the house a few seconds later could change your life. Hugely popular amongst adults and teenagers. STOP PRESS: Wasted has won its second award, the RED award! So excited and pleased.
A gruesome, thrilling tale, set in Edinburgh in the horrific 1820s. Robbie meets the surgeon who killed his mother – during an operation without anaesthetic – and vows to make the man pay, and care. But Dr Knox is the surgeon who bought the bodies from the murderers, Burke and Hare, and now Robbie is in terrible danger.
Two thrilling historical adventures aimed at 10+ but equally enjoyed by teenagers and adults. Will and Bess are two young highwaymen, thrown together unwillingly and facing great dangers together.
A chilling, creepy thriller about a 14-year-old girl who is being stalked. She doesn’t know but you know right from the start. You watch the stalker but you don’t know who it is, why he is stalking her or, more importantly, what he plans to do do her.
The amazing teenage brain explained. Blame My Brain is used throughout the world by teenagers, parents, schools, psychologists and social services, to help, inform and reassure parents and teenagers about the stresses they often go through.
The follow-up from Blame My Brain, this book explains how your brain works, how it’s different from other people’s brains, and how to make it work as well as possible. Lots of quizzes and activities. And a recipe for brain cake!
A chilling dystopian novel set 150 years in the future, when language has been killed and emotion dulled. Four teenagers have the task of restoring hope – but first they must find the secret behind the government and all of their lives.
As I’ve said somewhere else, I’ve written around 90 books in total. Ten are novels, three are full length non-fiction, one is a school text book on Greek history, and the rest are educational home learning books, for various age ranges from 3-5 and upwards. These are the best known ones: The I Can Learn [...]