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19

Struck

…lightning and channel it away from destruction. She is sought by two warring factions, the Seekers and The Followers – the former led by Rance Ridley Prophet, the self-styled latter-day…

21

We Played With Fire

…the gold seekers heading out to California. A truly exciting work of historical fiction, We Played With Fire is also a genuinely chilling Gothic read. As with Catherine’s debut, Troublemakers,…

24

Mr Sparks

…in an asylum. His future seems bleak, until an unusual guest arrives. Otto Schilling is a ventriloquist, a frail and elderly man whose luggage attests to his long travelling life….

25

These Shallow Graves

…his inspiration, a bleak lunatic asylum where the sane might be incarcerated by their enemies, and a warren of grimy alleyways peopled by scar-faced men with knives. There is even…

26

Only Eva

…are living in a detention centre while seeking asylum. Eva tackles them as she always does, positively, with good-humour and boundless energy. Her enthusiasm is contagious and, with the help…

28

Dead Romantic

…crazed scientist who murdered people for his experiments, before being locked up in a mental asylum. After Zoe demonstrates in a dissection class that she can bring dead hamsters back…

29

Whisper My Name

Jane Eagland’s earlier book for young adults, Wildthorn, saw its young heroine confined to a Victorian asylum as the penalty for difference from contemporary norms. Whisper My Name returns to…

32

Rowan the Strange

…of 13-year-old Rowan Scrivener, a sufferer from schizophrenia, from his London family to an institution in Kent, described by its director as ‘a private asylum for the mentally deranged’, where…

33

Boy Overboard

asylum. Having survived landmines, firing squads and storms, we are left to wonder whether Jamal, his family and friends, are doomed to live in the ‘purgatory’ of an Australian-adminstered ‘transit’…

34

The Adventures of Odysseus

…adhere to its classical structure: after a prologue vividly outlining the Judgement of Paris and the Trojan War, a destitute Odysseus, granted asylum at the court of King Alcinous, recounts…

35

To the Other Side

…a safer place to live and each has a story to tell. Yes, this particular story is of crossing from Mexico to the U.S. but with more and more asylum-seeking…

36

Hands Up!

…As the boy hero and storyteller Jason Lurcher rapidly discovers, maybe the puppets are controlling the asylum and maybe, just maybe, they themselves behave at the behest of the greatest…