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Anything That isn't This by Chris Priestley
16.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Seventeen-year-old Frank Palp lives in a grim little apartment, in a grim little building, in an exceedingly grim (and rather large) city. Cobbled streets and near-destroyed bridges lead one through Old Town and Old New Town, and war-damaged houses stand alongside post-war characterless, concrete hutche ...Show more
Battle of Britain (My Story) by Chris Priestley
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
It's 1939 and Harry Woods is a Spitfire pilot in the RAF. When his friend Lenny loses his leg in a dogfight with the Luftwaffe, Harry is determined to fight on. That is, until his plane is hit and he finds himself tumbling through the air high above the English Channel...
Curse of the Werewolf Boy (Maudlin Towers #1) by Chris Priestley
12.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Maudlin Towers
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Flesh and Blood by Chris Priestley
12.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
A World War Two-set chiller from the author of The Tales of Terror, perfect for fans of Darren Shan and Neil Gaiman.During the Blitz, Bill wishes he had a brother rather than his sister. After the raid, the family find and adopt a badly mutilated boy, his face so heavily bandaged that they can see nothi ...Show more
Freeze by Chris Priestley
12.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Award-winning master of scary stories Chris Priestley returns with a spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales to chill you to the bone ... When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some brilliant ideas. Rising floodwaters uncover long-buried ...Show more
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds; Chris Priestley (Illustrator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Bes ...Show more
Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley
15.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Billy is a street urchin, pickpocket and petty thief. Mister Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets. Their relationship begins as pure convenience. But a bond swiftly develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes them ever northwards on the trail of their ta ...Show more
Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley
22.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: From 12
Billy is a street urchin, pickpocket and petty thief. Mister Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets. Their relationship begins as pure convenience. But a bond swiftly develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes them ever northwards on the trail of their ta ...Show more
Seven Ghosts by Chris Priestley
14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
The award-winning author of Tales of Terror stirs up old ghosts in this spine-tingling, multi-narrative horrorJake and the other finalists in a writing competition have been invited to a stately house for a tour like no other. As their guide leads them through grand rooms, hidden nooks and magnificent g ...Show more
Still Water by Chris Priestley
11.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Evacuated from London at the outbreak of war, Rosie is taken in by kind Mrs Taylor and her daughter Mary...but all is not as it seems. Mary resents and bullies Rosie, and Mrs Taylor is hiding a dark secret. When Rosie comes across a strange girl swimming in a local pond, she hopes they will become frien ...Show more
Superpowerless by Chris Priestley
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
David is sixteen. A pretty ordinary boy, in most ways - he just wants to hang out in his bedroom, reading his dad's old comics. Comics that are full of his heroes - those figures whose lives are charmed, special, unique. Life hasn't been easy recently for David, though. His father died just a couple of ...Show more
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley
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Category: Childrens | Series: Tales of Terror | Reading Level: From 12
At the Old Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a storm-lashed ocean, two sick children are left alone while their father fetches the doctor. Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so begins a long night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who have an unnatural appetit ...Show more