Bøger af Nicholas Walker

A Children's Novel of 36,000 Words: Written by a bestselling author this enormously gripping novel is set Jersey, during World War Two, when The Channel Islands were occupied by Germany. It is very much based on fact: All the buildings, streets, munitions and army terms are accurate, and all the incidents that take place in the novel are taken from incidents that actually happened during the war. After the first year of occupation the only resistance to the Germans came from the children of the island, indeed at one time the schools had to close because virtually all the teenage boys were locked up in the local prison...this is the basis for the story. There are four main characters in the story, Rex, Sue, David and Marianne. The first three are old friends, David and Sue are twins and Rex is their leader and Sue has a crush on Rex. Sue is very outspoken while David is a quiet follower of the others. Rex is the driving force, he leads the children of Jersey and is very brave, enjoying dangerous confrontations with the Germans. Marianne is the good girl of the school and very much a loner, she always obeys the teachers and the Germans and Rex finds himself having to act as her protector from the other children when they begin to view her as a traitor. One night Rex finds out that Marianne is hiding a family of Jews in the hills and brings in the other two to help her. To their astonishment, the girl who spends her nights working in her father's hotel: Dancing With The Enemy, is her own one-woman resistance group, receiving orders from Britain. Sue is wildly jealous of Marianne's growing relationship with Rex but is forced to subdue it when they join forces. Rex's group, who, up till then, had merely crept around painting Victory Vs everywhere, now find themselves involved in a much more dangerous business: Smuggling fugitives, disarming mines and spying. Marianne saves Sue when she falls into a Gestapo trap, then she and Rex are trapped themselves and Rex saves Marianne's life and in the process learns she is herself a Jewess and has spent some time in a concentration camp. Marianne gradually shows them how to fight the Germans and Rex begins to understand the commitment needed: When he asks her if she sleeps with the Germans, she tells him no but she will if it becomes necessary! A high-ranking American officer crash lands on the island and the children have to hide him. the Germans take hostages, amongst them Rex and David, and promise to shoot them if the officer is not handed over. The novel is full of action and emotion, but the story is about the realities of war: The sacrifices that have to be made. But it is not a sad book, it is full of the humour that dangerous situations bring and the accelerated relationships that take place in time of war. The book ends on an upbeat note, leaving the way clear for a series of follow up novels.Warning: this novel contains the more robust language used by teenagers and references to more intimate relationships for characters of this age as well as wartime situation that may upset.

This is the best-selling follow up to Crackling Ice that takes the story of Alex and Samantha to another level. The two trouble prone ice-dancers are now going for the Juniors but Samantha collapses on the ice and her parents take her away from Alex and ice-dancing. Now she is locked up in a private school for girls and they can only meet to skate in secret...can Samantha get herself expelled in time to skate for gold?

The third in the best-selling series about Alex and Samantha the trouble prone Ice Dancers. Samantha and Alex now have an American trainer, Walt Danvers, who is priming them for stardom - or is he? Nothing is ever quite as it seems. Plotting is rife and somebody doesn't want Samantha and Alex to skate successfully in the British Championships. These thrilling novels rip the top off the world of Ice Skating and reveal the passions, the heartbreak and the skulduggery that go on in the professional world.

This is the sixth book in the series that started with: Going Round The Bend On The QE2 and concerns the time when Nick and his wife Anjanette have had to escape from the Middle East and have ended back in the UK penniless. It tells of how they move to a tiny house in the very wilds of Scotland where they nearly starve to death. Nick opens up his ballroom dance club: Dancing in the Dark just to support them and shortly afterwards he reopens Kernow Karate. Sinister events though are happening behind the scenes as his battles with the Middle East still continue and death threats become an almost commonplace thing. Nick goes on to fight many more battles, firstly with Reader's Digest, then the whole of Inverness Council and on to a debt collecting boxer. As ever Nick can find the funny side of any situation and his mad mooning of the local vicar and his vendetta with a local farmer and the clash with the poor man who was on his phone while cycling across Inverness bridge will have readers in hysterics. As always the events in this book are absolutely true and it is a great contribution to the other books in this exciting series of autobiographical travelogues.

This is the follow up to The Ice Mountain when Benjamin and Belinda first skated together before they were World Champions in the Crackling Ice series. The two are working towards their first serious competition but the tremendous workload starts to impact on their schoolwork and both are threatened with suspension. But even more of a problem arises as they are becoming more and more fond of one another and this leads to jealousies between them and after an argument Belinda goes with Benjamin's best friend to the school disco. Benjamin retaliates by taking Belinda's friend and they have a massive fight and agree to look for new partners after the competition. Then Benjamin has a bad fall and is unable to skate and Belinda starts dancing with another boy.Can they bring it all together before the competition or will they split up forever? This exciting novels rips aside the glamour of the Ice Dancing world and reveals all the hard work and tears and the tremendous pressures these children live under every day of their lives!

The gripping story of the four fanatical ice dancers continues taking us right up into the highest levels of the sport. Samantha is still banned from the Olympics while Benjamin and Belinda seem to be headed straight for the Gold but things start to unravel. Frustrated from her ambition Samantha turns back to dance and Alex loses his love for the ice and unbelievably it seems that the pair are on the verge of quitting, will they even remain together if they no longer skate together? Then out of the blue the world is stunned when Belinda fails a drugs test and it seems that the UK will be heading towards the most important Winter Olympics ever without any serious contenders. This, the seventh in this best-selling series, rips the top off the world of Ice Skating to reveal all the heartbreak and hard work that lies beneath and shows just what these youngsters have to go through every day of their lives for that magic four minutes out on the ice.Warning: this novel contains the more robust language used by teenagers and references to more intimate relationships for characters of this age.

Vega! Vegas! Vegas! is the follow up to Kiss Mommy Goodbye which is about the rock superstar Peter Webb and the seven abused children he adopts. In this novel the children have all become one family and even though they all still suffer from huge problems they all meet them as one! Peter takes on a massive gig at the Bellagio in Vegas and takes his whole family along with him as well as his famous movie star girlfriend, Roberta Capone. The children are all loving their time in Vegas attending Peter's concerts every evening to watch him a Getz stun the crowds and in the day time exploring the hotels of Vegas in their own particular manner. When Getz falls for the owner of the new Rock and Roll hotel they all disapprove but she insists on seeing him. Then Getz is raped and all the children unite to keep Peter from finding out and to get their revenge on Vince Martin. How they conspire to drive him completely out of business all the time protecting their explosive father from finding out makes for a high powered action packed side story to saga of the Webb family! As always with these novels Vegas is full of drama and trauma with high powered moments of humour when the lives of the super famous and super rich come into contact with a rough crowd of children from all over the world!

Samantha is thrown out of dance school and told she will never dance again...and dancing is her whole life. Then she meets 14 year old Alex who is an ice dancer and secretly they start skating together. Can Samantha hide her obsession from her parents? Will they even stay as partners when his attitude is so casual? Will their tempestuous relationship tear them apart before they ever get to perform?This gripping novel by best seller Nicholas Walker tears the top of the ice skating world and reveals all the agony and heartbreak that lies underneath.

Written by a bestselling author this is the hilarious story of him having a nervous breakdown and running away around the world on the QE2! Unbelievable but absolutely true the author's sensitive mental state gives him a different slant on world travel and the millionaires he mixes with. A truly different travel book which will have you laughing on every page.This is the true story of how the author cured a nervous breakdown by taking a world cruise on The Queen Elizabeth ll. It is a peep into the luxury lifestyle of the very rich from the somewhat sardonic viewpoint of someone who is not quite sane. We visit 40 countries and each one is treated to the author's observations which are nearly always humorous and written by someone who's fragile mental state causes him to throw all caution to the winds. But more than that, Nick isn't your conventional world traveller: he gets arrested in New York and undergoes an intimate body search, he fights off three armed muggers in Jamaica, falls out with Australian customs officers, has a motor bike accident in Bali, is attacked by two old men in The Taj Mahal and is thrown out of Vietnam. The book, though, is more about his life aboard the QE2: his love affairs, his growing relationship with the staff and their intimate, closeted lifestyle, the disastrous staff concert that ends up in an all-out fight, the excesses of the super-rich passengers and the bizarre situations that only happen aboard such as the night where he is trapped on the dance floor with the three women he has been dating. All in all it is the story of a man making his way back to sanity until he is finally deposited back on the quay at Southampton where he started only now he is penniless and has just been informed that everything he owns in the world has been thrown overboard into the sea.The hilarious follow up is now available on Kindle: Not Quite Sane in America, where Nick runs away to America to avoid his proctologist!

This amazing true travelogue of a trouble prone man as he struggles to recover from a nervous breakdown will have you laughing on every page. Nick smuggles himself back into America and resumes his bizarre life after his deportation. Only this time Nick takes up with a neurotic millionairess on the run from her violent husband and when her husband is suddenly killed in a motorbike accident he finds himself instantly transported from his tiny bedsit into a ten million dollar house and enters into the lifestyle of the super-rich. Nick though isn't your typical traveller and he still finds time to fall into situations other people can only imagine: he gets arrested for abusing the queue at Subway, he gets banned from the local movie theatre for instigating a major popcorn fight, he dances naked in front of a Private Investigator, he has to disarm a highly disturbed individual in his gym and finally he has to face up to the hit man who has been sent to kill him.This is the third book in this popular series following on from: Going Around the Bend on the QE2 and Not Quite Sane in America both available on Kindle. The fourth in the series is to be entitled: Totally off the Twig in The Middle East and should be available in 2017 if Nick doesn't manage to get himself jailed or murdered in the meantime!

Leonie is sent to a new school after getting into trouble at her old one and there she meets Oliver. But Oliver is a bit different to the other pupils, Oliver can do strange things to computers and lights and even planes flying overhead...Oliver is dangerous he can put people in hospital just by touching them! All the other pupils give Oliver a wide berth but Leonie likes him and they form a relationship. The Head Teacher and the police and even government officials get involved and Oliver is locked away in a special hospital but Leonie helps him escape so he can finally confront his enemy...someone else with very special powers equal to Oliver's.This is a new novel by best-selling author Nicholas Walker and it is an exciting mix of paranormal and mind control set in a modern day school.

Benjamin and Belinda are in the same class at school when suddenly they are thrown together as Ice Dance partners and all the classroom politics go flying out of the window. As they skate in secret from their classmates their developing relationship on the ice brings them into massive conflicts: I don't care if you hate each other's guts in school...out there on that ice you have to love one other! Benjamin and Belinda became famous in the Crackling Ice series and this is their very first outing! An exciting and heart-warming book.

The fourth travelogue in this best-selling series of the trouble prone eccentric who is not quite sane. Nick runs away from a mad woman in America and somehow ends up in Kuwait teaching at a posh school. But this is Nick and things never go easily for Nick! He is adopted by a dirt poor Arab family from a persecuted sect and takes up the cause of the Bedoon, he opens an illegal dance club and he terrorises the local barber. His hilarious antics as he gets flung into jail with an expectorating guard, as he dismantles a speed camera and has to flee from the local police, his battles with the authorities and the genuine love shown him by his pupils all have the seeds of fiction in them...but amazingly they are all true. This time his travels take a more serious turn as he gets beaten up by the military and the police attempt to blow up his car but Nick's sardonic view of everything going on around him can bring humour to any situation and, as ever, his relationships with the opposite sex deliver him into ever more exciting situations...his penchant for getting involved with bizarre women smacks on genius!The first in this exciting series is: Going Around the Bend on the QE2. The second: Not Quite Sane in America. The third: Losing my Marbles in LA. The fifth about his final year in the Middle East will follow in 2018 if Nick doesn't manage to get himself arrested or shot in the meantime.

The fourth in the best-selling series about Alex and Samantha the trouble prone Ice Dancers. The story of Samantha and Alex is continued in this book, as they reach the Olympic Games. Samantha attacks an Olympic judge and is given a life time ban. The resulting strain leads to Samantha and Alex's parting and they each find new partners. Can either of them succeed without the other?

Nicholas Walker, actually went to one of the major dance schools for three months and joined in all the classes to experience the dedication, the crippling workload...the pain and the joy of being a professional dancer. In this book Leon treats dance class as a way of dating girls until he comes under the spell of the waif like Angela. She is totally paranoid about dance, thinks about nothing else, and will have nothing to do with him until the opportunity to dance for the video of a major rock star arises. As the two total opposites begin to dance together they grow more and more fond of each other even though it seems everything in the world is against them!The prequel to Dance Academy.

The long awaited sequel to the best-selling mass market novel Jazz Dancer. Author, Nicholas Walker, actually went to one of the major dance schools for three months and joined in all the classes to experience the dedication, the crippling workload...the pain and the joy of being a professional dancer.It is a year later and Leon has followed Angela to The Academy and both are doing well but Angela is having problems coping with the pressure. Then Leon is expelled after being arrested by the police and goes to live with his best friend Tina. After months of searching for work, choreographer Andre Lehmann, offers Leon the most thankless job in dancing: the part of Tweedledum in his new production Alice.Leon starts to dance with the beautiful Lace for this new rock musical and is introduced to the magical word of professional dancers but will this finally destroy his love affair with Angela?This book rips the top off the world of dancing and introduces the reader to the real blood, sweat and tears of the cut throat industry of professional entertainment. This is how it really is where thousands of young people strive every day of their lives for that one break that might lead to employment...or total failure!

Best-selling gripping novel about a boy and a girl who do karate. William goes to a new school where he falls foul of the classroom idiot, the beautiful but barmy Jaimey. She does karate but it turns out so does William who is already a black belt and a champion. Their sparring goes on at school as well as in the club. Written by a best-selling author who is himself Chief Instructor of a martial arts organisation this is the novel that sold all around the world. Now in a new edit it is being re-released on Amazon!

The fifth true travelogue in this best-selling series of the trouble prone eccentric who is not quite sane. Nick is back in Kuwait but he has left A'Takamul School and is working at the Ministry of Defence. He is still running his illegal dance club and upsetting the authorities with his campaigning on behalf of the Bedoon. True to form Nick's penchant for getting into trouble follows him around: he is kidnapped at gunpoint, banned from ever using Emirates Airlines again, dances with a princess, is nearly flattened by a bulldozer, has to hide in the desert and is forced to smuggle himself and the omnipresent Emad into Iraq. All these incidents have the seeds of fiction in them but they are amazingly true, but Nick's sardonic view of everything going on around him can bring humour to any situation. His relationships with the opposite sex once again lead to trouble but this time he meets a girl who is to become his wife and they run off to Bangkok to get married.The first in this exciting series: Going Around the Bend on the QE2. The second: Not Quite Sane in America. The third: Losing my Marbles in LA and the fourth: Going Crackers in Kuwait are all available on Amazon/Kindle

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