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Tsunami Girl (Paperback): Julian Sedgwick Tsunami Girl (Paperback)
Julian Sedgwick; Illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada
R349 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R67 (19%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. It's about a young person trying to work out who they are, and where they fit - and trying to do this whilst surviving the trauma of a triple disaster of colossal scale, told through both prose and manga.

100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café (Paperback): Julian Sedgwick 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café (Paperback)
Julian Sedgwick; Illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada
R350 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R67 (19%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to find his family and save his young sister, before time runs out. Voyaging deeper and deeper into a Japan ‘between the worlds’, Akira and his companions encounter a host of yokai monsters and famous ghosts, discovering a sometimes comical and sometimes terrifying world of interlinked and ghostly short stories along the way.

Mysterium: The Black Dragon - Book 1 (Paperback): Julian Sedgwick Mysterium: The Black Dragon - Book 1 (Paperback)
Julian Sedgwick 1
R255 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R20 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

East meets West; past meets present; criminal minds meet skilled artists - welcome to the Mysterium, a circus with dark and thrilling secrets at its heart. Twelve-year-old Danny Woo is half-Chinese, half-British. His parents are performers in the Mysterium. Following their death in a mysterious fire, Danny is sent to live with his aunt Laura, an investigative journalist. When Danny's school is closed after an explosion, he joins Laura on a trip to Hong Kong. She is researching the Triad gangs; he is trying to understand more about his cultural background. But Laura disappears, and Danny is plunged into a dangerous quest to find her - which opens the door on the past he could never have imagined, and which leads him to question everything he has ever known about his past.

Ghosts of Shanghai - Book 1 (Paperback): Julian Sedgwick Ghosts of Shanghai - Book 1 (Paperback)
Julian Sedgwick 1
R252 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A powerful teen thriller with echoes of J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life ... Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide out in ruined White Cloud Temple. But the world of Shanghai in the late 1920s is driven with danger: disease, crime, espionage and revolution are sweeping the streets. And since the death of her younger brother Thomas, Ruby is stalked by another anxiety and fear. Faced with a series of local hauntings, and armed with a lucky bookshop find - The Almanac of Distant Realms - Ruby forms the Shanghai Ghost Club to hunt down restless spirits. When best friend Faye is kidnapped by the Green Hand, Ruby must trust a mysterious stranger - and face her worst fears - in order to save her friends, and her own life. And in the ensuing fight she will catch a glimpse of the one spirit she has longed to see ... The secrets that Ruby's father and friends have kept from her are coming back to haunt them all.

Ghosts of Shanghai: Shadow of the Yangtze - Book 2 (Paperback): Julian Sedgwick Ghosts of Shanghai: Shadow of the Yangtze - Book 2 (Paperback)
Julian Sedgwick 1
R224 R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Save R17 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun meets Susan Hill's The Woman in Black in a compelling teen thriller ... Ruby - a Western girl who feels more Chinese than English - and her friend Charlie must follow the Yangtze hundreds of miles upriver, travelling by Chinese junk and rogue steamer, through bandit and ghost haunted countryside - doggedly tracking Moonface as he spirits Charlie's sister Fei off to his home village. Everything is in flux around them: civil war pulsing, with Nationalists, Communists and warlord bandits struggling for control. The river rises and falls, villages spring up and are gone again. Ruby and Charlie brave a shipwreck and a gunbattle and then take a perilous cliff path to Moonface's lair.

Mysterium: The Wheel of Life and Death - Book 3 (Paperback): Julian Sedgwick Mysterium: The Wheel of Life and Death - Book 3 (Paperback)
Julian Sedgwick 1
R221 R203 Discovery Miles 2 030 Save R18 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Reeling from events in Barcelona, the reformed Mysterium circus company pack up and head for a new circus in Berlin. For twelve-year-old Danny Woo it is a date with destiny: it was in Berlin ('the city of escapes') that the last Mysterium performance took place, and where his parents perished in the mysterious fire for which Danny has been desperate to find an explanation. Danny is closing in on Centre - the traitor who is either part of the Mysterium, or linked to it. But a vital last clue, left in code by Danny's father, is missing. And a dark figure is shadowing the convoy as it makes its way across Europe. As the Mysterium pitches camp in Berlin, the snow begins to fall once more. The truth is within reach - but will Danny discover it in time enough to save not only himself but Sing-Sing - the sister he never knew he had.

Ghosts of Shanghai 3: Return to the City of Ghosts (Paperback): Julian Sedgwick Ghosts of Shanghai 3: Return to the City of Ghosts (Paperback)
Julian Sedgwick 1
R225 R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Save R17 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'The thing about ghosts is sometimes we create our own. And sometimes they find us, no matter what we do.'

The thrilling conclusion to the Ghosts of Shanghai by the award-winning author of the Mysterium trilogy, for fans of Philip Pullman, Susan Hill and Robin Stevens.

Ruby is on a mission to rescue the boy she loves: Charlie has been swept away in the powerful waters of the River Yangtze. But the world she loves is now broken by danger and fear, and Ruby is lost and surrounded by ghosts.

Can Ruby trust herself, and those around her, to find Charlie and return to Shanghai? Or has she ventured too deep into the realm of spirits?

On an amazing journey down the Yangtze, crossing from one world to the other, Ruby must follow the 'red thread of destiny' to find Charlie and home, before she loses herself . . .

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