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This collection of fictional short stories by Polly Devlin, are based on her own childhood in Ardboe, in Northern Ireland. The narrator is a little girl whose mother has died and who is being looked after by a strong, plain-speaking country woman called Mary Ellen Martin. Mary-Ellen's father was a fisherman on the Lough and their lives were simple. She tells her small charge about the characters who made up the little community: Old Forbie, Jem the Bridge, Barney Dugh, Mickel Heron. Hers are the...

Love is the light in the darkness.Kidnapped as a child by a shifter clan, Christy Daine was later sent to live in the human world. But her more than ten years amongst the humans hasn’t erased her fear of those that tried to kill her. That’s where her bodyguard, Ronan, comes in. He’s everything Christy needs, so much so that their passionate relationship is worth the risk to their lives.But when her father, the alpha of all the clans, demands she return home to marry a groom of his choosing, Chri...

The battle never stops.Christy seems to have fulfilled all her dreams. She’s finally with the man she loves, and her bliss carries her throughout the days. But her island sanctuary is feeling more like a prison, as enemies still lurk in the shadows of this haven for the shifter clans.When the past rears its head once again, she discovers that her brother may still be alive. Now, Christy must run headfirst into danger as she confronts the man responsible for the death of her family.As the new alp...

It is the twenty-first century and a young girl travels into a virtual maze; the Prime Minister of Australia is blackmailed by her daughter; a mysterious old women befriends a young runaway; an extinct tiger haunts the last remaining wilderness; and a parallel world wrestles with the ethics of population control. Julie Ireland has written five stories that provide thought-provoking glimpses into the near future. In this future there is art that transforms, music that has the power to speak to th...

Striking and eloquent stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body's water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite; a wolf rescues a sick child abandoned by her parents, only to die himself at the hand of men. However, bunkers can also become real homes, a small Japanese g...

Winner, Book of the Year Younger Readers, Children's Book Council Awards 1992 Winner, Crichton Award for Best New Illustrator 1992 Meet Lindalou, who makes a wondrous flying boat and sails to Kathmandu; timid Andy Umm, who talks to animals and tames a lion; curious Ferdinand, who cures the prime minister with the help of his magic spectacles; Ignatius Binz, whose magnificent nose picks up the faintest whiff of danger; Valentina Lookwell, who paints people as they really are; Wendelin B Wordfor...