Bøger af David Winship

Q. What do a talking mouse, an extraterrestrial dressed as Santa Claus, a burping cow and the imaginary friend of a goldfish all have in common?A. They're all in this book!Talking Trousers is a story about a mouse who is given the speech gene in an experimental research laboratory.In Santa Comes Down The Wormhole, a space outlaw finds the Voyager space probe and decides to visit planet Earth disguised as Santa Claus.Also included: Fish FigmentsBonaparte Breaks A WingThe Burping CowIvy and Holl

After a tongue-in-cheek beginning that will seem very familiar, especially to younger readers, this short story bounces like a mis-hit tennis ball from one episode to another as it follows the progress of would-be tennis champ Jez on the trail to Wimbledon.

A volume of short stories with a wide range of themes. In Stirring The Grass, Rick Griffin's Muslim girlfriend, Sara Awad, is reported as missing. This opens up a whole can of worms involving international espionage with all its attendant deceit and duplicity, and propels those closest to her on a roller coaster of emotional turmoil... In Man Flu, something strange starts claiming the lives of birds in the West Hill dominion. There are no external wounds, no signs of struggle, no readily obvious cause of death. The inner circle, under the presidency of a charismatic robin, decides that humans are responsible. The word goes out that all contact with humans is forbidden and, most significantly, bird feeders are declared off-limits. The penalty for breaking the embargo is severe...Also included: Fish Figments, Shackleton's Shed, Why Thursdays?, David Attenborough III and a couple of short pieces of prose.

Neil is an avid aquarium hobbyist. He is also the grandson of a woman who befriended extraterrestrials from a small circumbinary planet known as Morys Minor. Having obtained financial backing for a project to reestablish contact with his late grandmother's alien friends, he unexpectedly receives a visit from one of them. Unfortunately, yukawa3 has alarming news for everyone on Earth. A species evolved from ants is surreptitiously invading the planet and is bent on overthrowing humankind. Neil must act to save his fish. The consequences of failure are unsinkable.Based on all the best books you can think of and written with all the clarity of a grungy and neglected fish tank, ANTidote explores themes of staggering inanity sprinkled with a few flakes of nourishing perspicacity (mainly for the fish).This is part of a trilogy of two books, the first of which, Through The Wormhole Literally, was published in 2015.

Being an avid aquarium hobbyist, it is obviously just a matter of time before Neil finds himself travelling by wormhole to a small circumbinary planet in the constellation of Cygnus. Okay, it's probably more relevant that he is the grandson of a woman who had befriended extra-terrestrials at the turn of the 21st century.Having been chosen to broker a peace agreement between Mortian and Earth peoples, he is hampered in his efforts by the disappearance of his Earthling friend, Aysha, the general unpredictability of life on planet Melinda and the sinister chicanery of the chilloks, a species evolved from ants that is bent on overthrowing humankind...