| 12+/YA FICTION Series |
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| THE AWAKENERS Trilogy (YA) Pauline Alphen - Hachette France 1st title (528pp): a post-apocalyptic story, set in a time after much of humanity has died in dark circumstances, and survivors have recreated communities, in which all forms of technology have been eradicated. A time strangely reminiscent of the Dark Ages, when mentioning the past has become taboo. Claris and Jad, 12 years old twins live in a protected world, their mother having mysteriously vanished when they were still toddlers. Their peaceful existence is all about to change when Blaise, their tutor, starts talking about times past and gives the children forbidden objects left behind by previous generations The twins will soon be forced to face the story of their family's past and their own destiny. Rights sold in Brazil and Vietnam |
| SOLACE AND GRIEF Trilogy (YA) Foz Neadows - Ford Street, Australia First title (361pp) - Solace Morgan was born a vampire. Raised in foster care, she has always tried to keep her abilities secret, until an eerie encounter with a faceless man prompts her to run away. Finding others with similar gifts, Solace soon becomes caught up in a strange, more vibrant world than she ever knew existed. But when the mysterious Professor Lukin takes an interest in her friends, she is forced to start asking questions of her own. What happened to her parents? Who is Sharpsoft? And since when has there been a medieval dungeon under Hyde Park? |
Individual Fiction Titles on PAGE 2
THE INTRUDER trilogy (YA )
Nicolas Jaillet - Hachette France
First title “The intruder” (240pp): 1815, Vienna - behind the walls of the Hofburg Palace, big decisions
are made on wars and alliances. At the centre of this whirlwind, young Viscount Frederic of Waldaw
has been hiding his real identity from Fanny, a dressmaker he‟s fallen unconditionally in love with -
pretending to be a simple domestic - for fear of losing her. Fanny, suspecting he is lying, decides to
enter the Palace in secret to find out the truth. Dressed up as a man, she soon starts raising suspicions
amongst the secret police. In desperation, she changes into a ball dress she finds in one of the rooms
and encounters a man, who, captivated by her beauty invites her to open the ball. Little does she does
he is the Tsar of Russia and she is about to enter a world of political intrigues and scandals.
Nicolas Jaillet - Hachette France
First title “The intruder” (240pp): 1815, Vienna - behind the walls of the Hofburg Palace, big decisions
are made on wars and alliances. At the centre of this whirlwind, young Viscount Frederic of Waldaw
has been hiding his real identity from Fanny, a dressmaker he‟s fallen unconditionally in love with -
pretending to be a simple domestic - for fear of losing her. Fanny, suspecting he is lying, decides to
enter the Palace in secret to find out the truth. Dressed up as a man, she soon starts raising suspicions
amongst the secret police. In desperation, she changes into a ball dress she finds in one of the rooms
and encounters a man, who, captivated by her beauty invites her to open the ball. Little does she does
he is the Tsar of Russia and she is about to enter a world of political intrigues and scandals.
| MAXIMUS BLACK Trilogy (12+) Paul Collins - Ford Street, Australia First title “Mole Hunt” (346pp) - Special Agent Maximus Black isn't your average 18-year-old. Charming, brilliant and deeply ambitious, he's one of the rising stars within the galaxy's powerful and mysterious law enforcement agency, RIM. But Maximus is also not what he seems. Black in both name and character, he's a cold-blooded sociopath working on a plan that will plunge the universe into chaos and allow him to seize control. Only one person can stop him--the equally clever and fearless agent, Anneke Longshadow. Bitingly clever and imaginative, "Mole Hunt" is a cross between “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”,” Total Recall” and” Dexter”. Cutting back and forth between the two rivals, the plot twists and turns in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase as each tries to outwit the other, while dodging all manner of obstacles like assassins and alien bounty hunters. |
| ABATON TRILOGY (YA - 400pp) - Mixtvision Verlag, Germany www.abaton-trilogie.de The YA novel debut of award-winning screenplay writers Christian Jeltsch & Olaf Krämer A breathless game about reality and appearances in the heart of Berlin Edda, Simon and Linus meet seemingly by chance in a summer camp near Berlin. It soon transpires however that the three teenagers have deliberately been chosen by an organization called GENE-SYS because their gathering leads to the development of a so-called "critical mass". And the organization wants to use this to their own purposes. When Linus starts looking for his parents, who supposedly went missing after a subway accident, strange parallels seem to open between the friends and even their own parents, who coincidentally were all working in the same fields of research. A scientist called Bernikoff and his theory of the „Abaton“, developed during the second world war, seems to have something to do with it. But how does it all connect? And who wants to prevent them from looking behind the obvious? |
| CHANGING YESTERDAY (YA - 375pp) Sequel to “before the storm” Sean McMullen - Ford Street It’s 1901, and Battle Commander Liore has travelled back in time to stop a war that will rage for over a hundred years. But time itself is against her. Whenever she changes history, a new beginning to the war emerges and the world once again teeters on the brink of disaster. To make matters worse, Barry the Bag has stolen Liore’s plasma rifle, the most dangerous weapon in the world. The owner is on his trail, and she doesn’t take prisoners. Can anything prevent Liore from risking the world’s future for the sake of revenge? |
| GAMER’S QUEST / CHALLENGE George Ivanoff - Ford Street, Australia Gamer’s quest (first title 173pp) - Tark and Zyra are teenaged thieves on a quest. In a world of magic and science, where dragons and mages exist alongside drones and lasers, they endeavour to reach the haven of Designers’ Paradise. But their world is not what it appears to be and their haven is about to come under threat of destruction. Can Tark and Zyra save Designers’ Paradise ... and their own world? |