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Alex Shearer

    25 juni 1949

    Alex Shearer is een veelzijdige schrijver wiens carrière begon met het schrijven van scripts voor televisie, waarmee hij aanzienlijk succes behaalde met programma's als 'The Two of Us'. Vervolgens heeft hij zich toegelegd op het schrijven voor kinderen, waarbij zijn 'Wilmot'-verhalen en de roman 'The Greatest Store in the World' voor televisie zijn bewerkt. Zijn fictie voor volwassenen heeft ook kritische bijval gekregen, met 'The Speed of the Dark' dat werd genomineerd voor de Guardian Fiction Prize. Shearers diverse achtergrond, waaronder meer dan dertig verschillende banen, voedt zijn rijke en meeslepende verhalen in verschillende genres.

    Tins
    The Great Blue Yonder
    This is the life
    The Lost NW
    The Cloud Hunters
    The great switcheroonie : Bill, Benny's boots and bling!
    • Bill thinks switching lives with Benny, the son of a world-famous footballer, for a day is going to be brilliant. But have Bill and Benny picked the wrong day to swap lives? Bill is bored with his ordinary life and Benny is tired of being in the spotlight- so why don't they just switch lives for one day? Anything's got to be better than Bill's boring life...right? But maybe being a world famous footballer's son isn't all that its cracked up to be. One thing's for sure, Bill definitely picked the wrong day to be Benny Spinks.

      The great switcheroonie : Bill, Benny's boots and bling!
    • Hunting the skies is not for the faint-hearted. In a world where water is scarce and deadly jellyfish swim through the sky, mollycoddled teenager Christien dreams of excitement and danger. When he meets the exotic and alluring Jenine and her family of Cloud Hunters, he becomes determined to fulfil that dream

      The Cloud Hunters
    • The Lost NW

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,8(91)Tarief

      Shortlisted for Bolton's Children's Book of the Year.

      The Lost NW
    • Even when you have received a death sentence, you still have to live...

      This is the life
    • The Great Blue Yonder

      • 184bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen
      3,6(37)Tarief

      People seem to think it's an easy life when you're dead. But you can take it from Harry, it's no such thing.After finding himself dead from a bike accident, Harry emerges on the Other Side, a strange land where the sun is always setting but never quite disappears, and dead people wander about, waiting to move on to the Great Blue Yonder. Harry's not sure exactly what the Great Blue Yonder is, but he doesn't want to go there until he's found some way to let his sister know that he's sorry for the mean things he said to her just before the accident. To do that, he'll have to return to Earth as a ghost--and face what life there is like without him.

      The Great Blue Yonder
    • Tins

      • 232bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,7(67)Tarief

      This title addresses themes like forced child labor, friendship, and malevolent adults, making it suitable for educational purposes. It encourages exploration of the genre, suspense techniques, and analysis of various writing styles.

      Tins
    • A cosy tale of crime and canal boats, set in West London and featuring a very special calico cat. From L T Shearer, The Cat Who Caught a Killer is perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club.

      The Cat Who Caught a Killer
    • Giles West has been married and faithful to his childhood sweetheart for 20 years. But now, turning 40, Giles decides that to have slept with only one partner is not to have lived. What he wants is an affair without complications or recriminations, so he decides to advertise in the personal column.

      BOX 132
    • The Computer Wizard

      • 88bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen

      When a boy presses the wrong button on his computer, he becomes stuck inside it. He worries that his jealous sister might turn off the computer, then has to cope with a lost lemming, a computer bug and other strange creatures from computer games. Illustrated in black and white.

      The Computer Wizard
    • Sky Run

      • 288bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Set against a backdrop of a perilous journey, the story follows Peggy Piercy, a 112-year-old crofter, as she navigates the challenges of raising her great-great-grandniece Gemma and great-great-grandnephew Martin. Orphaned and entrusted to Peggy's care after their parents' mysterious disappearance, the teenagers are now ready for an education. Peggy faces the daunting task of transporting them across treacherous waters filled with pirates and strange creatures, highlighting themes of adventure, family, and the quest for knowledge.

      Sky Run