Bøger af Dennis Hamley

Midshipman Edward Trefusis prepares for his second campaign on board HMS Fortune. He is disturbed by the strange news he has received about Amos Tunks, who he thought was drowned, shocked by what his uncle the rear-admiral shows him about Britain's terrible dangers and angered by what he learns about his enemy and rival.When Fortune sets sail, he soon finds himself embroiled in treachery, abduction and strange and riddling danger. At its centre is an ambiguous person, at once enemy and friend, who both threatens and saves and takes many forms. Truly in this new world, nothing is as it seems.To escape from it, Edward has to get through two great trials. The first tests his ingenuity and his bravery, the second his steadfastness and mental strength. But afterwards he still does not know what to expect, who to trust and what to believe."If ever you return to your ship, tread carefully, Mr Trefusis."

Twelve stories of the supernatural by Dennis Hamley collected into one edition. The world of ghosts is a varied one. The ghosts in these stories may seek justice for wrongs done to them in life, they may bring relief for injustice to people in the present. Some are malignant, some bring hope to the people of the present, some bring danger, others bring death. They may repay debts, they may right wrongs. There are prizefighting ghosts, musical ghosts, athletic ghosts, football ghosts, railway ghosts, Christmas ghosts, revenants from the past and one or two from the future. Ghost stories have been told for as long as there has been speech. They seem to satisfy deeply held instincts and needs. Each of these stories comes with an author's postscript, showing what triggered the writing process, what sort of ghost inhabits the story and where it may sit in the great pantheon of this mighty genre.

Five short stories and a whole novel which, if you blink, you'll miss!You'll find yourself with Alan the shepherdin a terrible battle with the evil Seth, the wicked faeries and Old Nick himself. You'll see Danny find out that there's more to life than trainspotting and Roy Breakspear discovering that you should never go back because you might find a lot more than you bargained for. While Jessica's family is on holiday, a little tragedy back home threatens a split in the family which could never be healed. Stephanie and Matthew are fascinated by Sylvie's strange Christmas guest. But he's even stranger than they could ever have imagined. And then we're back in 1804. Napoleon really is coming to conquer us. But Alfie thinks he's here already. "Dennis Hamley is a specially talented yarnspinner" TES

Who murdered the Head of Geography on the GCSE field trip? Surely not one of the students?Only the Wizard Firebrain can save Lord Oakheft's followers as they face a terrible doom, so why did he leave them for another other task? Who is the mysterious doctor who sends Morley to a hospital nobody has heard of, a place of nightmare and terror? (NB: it's best not to read this story too late at night!)What price must hopeless Norbert pay to be the best football referee in the entire Universe? (Be careful what you ask for, Norbert.) Each story has a twist and a shudder, written by an author the Times Educational Supplement called 'a specially talented yarnspinner.'

It is 1803. Britain is at war with France. Edward Trefusis, to his clergyman father's dismay and his Rear-Admiral uncle's delight, is now a midshipman on the frigate HMS Fortune. What does his first voyage have in store for him?It brings him a terrible task which frightens and horrifies him. It puts him in a danger which not even the oldest sailor on board should have to undergo. But it's because he's a boy that only he can do it, though with a companion for whom he has nothing but withering contempt as well as deep-seated fear.He is soon to have everything he has been brought up to believe denied before his eyes. He is sadder and wiser and tested nearly to destruction."Boys is men one day, your honour."Yes, but what sort of men can they be after this?

London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict whose grip on reality is slipping. In a Cambridge college library, a bullied undergraduate finds a strange annotation in a book of Coleridge's poems. Across the sea, a young Sicilian discovers that his mother once had a liaison with Coleridge. It isn't long before their paths cross.

Tyler has never liked ghost trains and he is about to discover why.

The pilot is unconscious and the plane is nose-diving out of control. Who is the mysterious pilot who takes over the controls for Zarek?

Jade wants to be there for her brother but can she help him when his train is about to crash into the river?

Who is the mysterious girl who has appeared next to Ryan in the car he has stolen? Ryan is about to find out.

From creepy school computers to bungling bank robbers; from lost villages to deadly Christmas presents... Funny and serious, this work contains fourteen mystery stories.